Updating a Perinatal Risk Scoring System to Predict Infant Mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The Birth Score Project (Project WATCH) began in the rural state of West Virginia (WV) in the United States in 1984. The project is intended to identify newborns with a greater risk of infant mortality. The primary objective of this study was to update the current Birth Score based on current literature and rigorous statistical methodology.

Study design

The study merged data from the Birth Score, Birth Certificate (birth years 2008-2013), and Infant Mortality Data (N = 121,640). The merged data were randomly divided into developmental (N = 85,148) and validation (N = 36,492) datasets. Risk scoring system was developed using the weighted multivariate risk score functions and consisted of infant and maternal factors.

Results

The updated sc

SUBMITTER: Umer A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6599540 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature