Early-childhood neurodevelopmental outcomes are not improving for infants born at< 25 weeks' gestational age

SR Hintz, DE Kendrick, DE Wilson-Costello, A Das… - …, 2011 - publications.aap.org
OBJECTIVE: We compared neurodevelopmental outcomes at 18 to 22 months' corrected
age of infants born with extremely low birth weight at an estimated gestational age of< 25
weeks during 2 periods: 1999–2001 (epoch 1) and 2002–2004 (epoch 2). PATIENTS AND
METHODS: We conducted a multicenter, retrospective analysis of the Eunice Kennedy
Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Neonatal Research
Network. Perinatal and neonatal variables and outcomes were compared between epochs …