ANNOTATION

Project 27/28

Project 27/28

A Jain, P Fleming

Peter Dunn Intensive Care Unit, St Michael’s Hospital, Southwell Street, Bristol, UK

Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Dr A Jain
Peter Dunn Intensive Care Unit, St Michael’s Hospital, Southwell Street, Bristol BS2 8EG, UK; Anoo.jain@ubht.swest.nhs.uk

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An enquiry into the quality of care and its effect on the survival of babies born at 27–28 weeks

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Keywords: CESDI; newborn

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The Confidential Enquiry into Stillbirths and Deaths in Infancy (CESDI) devised Project 27/78 to identify the patterns of perinatal practice and service that may have affected the risk of a neonatal death between 27⁺⁰ and 28⁺⁶ weeks gestation. An executive summary is available on the CESDI website (www.cemach.org.uk). The report deals with perinatal care but this article concentrates on the key messages for neonatologists.

All babies with a gestational age at birth of 26–29⁺⁶ weeks born in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland between 1 September 1998 and 31 August 2000 were entered into special logbooks and data were collected on a standard proforma. A four weeks range was chosen to allow for inaccuracies in the estimation of gestational age at birth. The information from all neonatal deaths was compared with that from an equivalent number of babies who were selected at random from those who survived . . . [Full text of this article]

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