Comparing very low birth weight versus very low gestation cohort methods for outcome analysis of high risk preterm infants

• Main Authors: Louise IM Koller-Smith (Author), Prakesh S. Shah (Author), Xiang Y. Ye (Author), Gunnar Sjörs (Author), Yueping A. Wang (Author), Sharon S. W. Chow (Author), Brian A. Darlow (Author), Shoo K. Lee (Author), Stellan Håkanson (Author), Kei Lui (Author), on behalf of the Australian and New Zealand Neonatal Network (Author), Canadian Neonatal Network (Author), Swedish Neonatal Quality Register (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Compared to very low gestational age (<32 weeks, VLGA) cohorts, very low birth weight (<1500 g; VLBW) cohorts are more prone to selection bias toward small-for-gestational age (SGA) infants, which may impact upon the validity of data for benchmarking purposes. Method Data f...