RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Annual audit of neonatal morbidity in preterm infants.
JF Archives of Disease in Childhood
JO Arch Dis Child
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
SP 1174
OP 1176
DO 10.1136/adc.67.10_Spec_No.1174
VO 67
IS 10 Spec No
A1 R W Cooke
YR 1992
UL http://adc.bmj.com/content/67/10_Spec_No/1174.abstract
AB Annual odds ratios, standardised for known confounding variables, were used to examine trends in major neonatal morbidities among 3220 preterm infants of less than 35 weeks' gestation admitted to a regional referral centre between 1980 and 1991. Despite improved survival, the risk of major cerebral haemorrhage, ventriculoperitoneal shunt insertion, and necrotising enterocolitis was unchanged. A recent reduction in risk of pneumothorax and persistence of the arterial duct was noted. An increased risk for chronic lung disease over time could be accounted for by increased survival, although a similar increase in risk for infection remained unexplained.