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

• Главные авторы: Louise IM Koller-Smith (Автор), Prakesh S. Shah (Автор), Xiang Y. Ye (Автор), Gunnar Sjörs (Автор), Yueping A. Wang (Автор), Sharon S. W. Chow (Автор), Brian A. Darlow (Автор), Shoo K. Lee (Автор), Stellan Håkanson (Автор), Kei Lui (Автор), on behalf of the Australian and New Zealand Neonatal Network (Автор), Canadian Neonatal Network (Автор), Swedish Neonatal Quality Register (Автор)
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• Опубликовано: BMC, 2017-07-01T00:00:00Z.
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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...