Assessment of an Updated Neonatal Research Network Extremely Preterm Birth Outcome Model in the Vermont Oxford Network.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Neonatal Research Network (NRN) extremely preterm birth outcome model is widely used for prognostication by practitioners caring for families expecting extremely preterm birth. The model provides information on mean outcomes from 1998 to 2003 and does not account for substantial variation in outcomes among US hospitals.

Objective

To update and validate the NRN extremely preterm birth outcome model for most extremely preterm infants in the United States.

Design, setting, and participants

This prognostic study included 3 observational cohorts from January 1, 2006, to December 31, 2016, at 19 US centers in the NRN (derivation cohort) and 637 US centers in Vermont Oxford Network

SUBMITTER: Rysavy MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7052789 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature