The critical importance of follow-up to school age: Contributions of the NICHD Neonatal Research Network.

ABSTRACT: Follow-up studies are essential for understanding outcomes and informing the care of infants with high risk for medical and developmental consequences because of extreme prematurity or perinatal illness. Studies that extend to school age often identify sequelae that go unrecognized in neonatal or short-term follow-up studies. Many critical neurocognitive, behavioral, functional, and health outcomes are best assessed beginning at school age. The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Development Neonatal Research Network (NRN) has performed comprehensive school age evaluations of several key trial cohorts. This manuscript summarizes the important contributions of school age follow-up studies in the NRN, both historically and in ongoing research. We describe in detail

SUBMITTER: DeMauro SB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10983779 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature