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- Published on: 13 May 2005
- Published on: 4 May 2005
- Published on: 22 April 2005
- Published on: 14 April 2005
- Published on: 13 May 2005Author's replyShow More
Dear Editor,
We appreciate Drs. Flaherman and Newman’s comments on our manuscript and welcome the opportunity to respond. First we would like to point out that the clinical risk factor score for a bottle-fed infant with birth weight 4.1 kg would only be higher than for a breast-fed infant of less than 38 weeks gestation if the latter infant’s birthweight were in the lowest birthweight category (2000g–2500g).
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None declared. - Published on: 4 May 2005Author's replyShow More
Dear Editor,
Dr. Kanjilal makes some important observations but is mistaken in several of her assertions. First, she suggests that because we limited our study sample to infants for whom pre and post discharge TSBs were performed our results are affected by some form of selection bias. The bias she is referring to is verification bias, in which only patients with “positive” or more concerning test results have a...
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None declared. - Published on: 22 April 2005Clinical risk factor scoring for hyperbilirubinemiaShow More
Dear Editor,
We were pleased to see the examination of risk factors for hyperbilirubinemia recently reported by Keren et al. [1]. By including only infants born during a time period in which at least 75% of all infants had post-discharge total serum bilirubin (TSB) levels measured, this new study reduced bias in the estimate of the predictive value of both the clinical risk factor score and the pre-discharge TSB...
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None declared. - Published on: 14 April 2005Clinical assessment of neonatal hyperbilirubinaemiaShow More
Dear Editor
The study is a retrospective study, using infants in whom pre and post discharge TSB has been carried out, hence causing an inherent bias towards the same group.
The data for clinical risk has been collected from documents like admission, intrapartum & discharge forms etc. This retrospective collection can result in missing or ambiguous data; as has been accepted by the authors. Ideally,...
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