Journal article
Outcomes of infants born at 22-27 weeks' gestation in Victoria according to outborn/inborn birth status
RA Boland, PG Davis, JA Dawson, LW Doyle
Archives of Disease in Childhood Fetal and Neonatal Edition | BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP | Published : 2017
Abstract
Objectives To compare mortality and serious morbidity rates between outborn and inborn livebirths at 22-27 weeks' gestation. Design Population-based cohort study. Setting Victoria, Australia. Patients Livebirths at 22-27 weeks' gestation free of major malformations in 2010-2011. Interventions Outcome data for outborn (born outside a tertiary perinatal centre) infants compared with inborn (born in a tertiary perinatal centre) infants were analysed by logistic regression, adjusted for gestational age, birth weight and sex. Main outcome measures Infant mortality and serious morbidity rates to hospital discharge. Results 541 livebirths free of major malformations were recorded. By 1 year, 49 (58..
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Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Centre for Research Excellence in Newborn Medicine at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
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Funding Acknowledgements
RAB was the recipient of the Felix Meyer Faculty Research Scholarship from the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Her PhD research was also supported with funding from a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Centre for Research Excellence in Newborn Medicine at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (ID 1060733). RAB currently holds a Postdoctoral Fellowship, funded by the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute. JAD and PGD are funded by the NHMRC: JAD holds an Early Career Fellowship (ID 1059111); PGD holds a Practitioner Fellowship (ID 1012686).