RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Comparison of mortality and rates of cerebral palsy in two populations of very low birthweight infants.
JF Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition
JO Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
SP F96
OP 100
DO 10.1136/fn.70.2.F96
VO 70
IS 2
A1 M H Ens-Dokkum
A1 A Johnson
A1 A M Schreuder
A1 S Veen
A1 A R Wilkinson
A1 R Brand
A1 J H Ruys
A1 S P Verloove-Vanhorick
YR 1994
UL http://fn.bmj.com/content/70/2/F96.abstract
AB Comparisons of mortality and rates of cerebral palsy in different populations can be confusing. This is illustrated by comparing two populations of very low birthweight infants born in the 1980s, one from the Netherlands, the other from the UK (Oxford region). Although a number of biases were controlled for while comparing two large geographically defined populations, by assessing the survivors at similar ages and describing their health status in a standard way, some problems in interpretation of outcome remained. Differences in registration practice of live births at early gestational ages, as well as differences in withholding or withdrawing treatment, which occurred in about half of the cases of neonatal death in the Netherlands and in about one third of those in the Oxford region, may have influenced the incidence of registered live births, neonatal mortality, and the rate of cerebral palsy.