Prediction of Cognitive Ability With Social Determinants in Children of Low Birth Weight.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite strong prevention efforts and advances in neonatal care in recent decades, low birth weight remains a serious public health problem in the United States, and survivors remain at increased risk for lifelong problems including cognitive deficits. Current regional and local strategies for referral often rely on variable thresholds for birth weight and gestational age that may be poor analogues to cognitive risk. Improving early referral criteria offers many benefits, including improved cognitive outcomes for children and improved cost-effectiveness and resource utilization in resource-limited communities.

Objectives

We hypothesized that social determinants measurable at birth or at birth hospital discharge, when combined with birth weight and gestational age,

SUBMITTER: Blair LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8926395 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov/Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature