Preterm Birth Causes, Consequences, and Prevention (2007) / Chapter Skim
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Section IV Recommendations
Section IV Recommendations
Pages 430-432
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Depart ment of Education, other funding agencies, and investigators should develop guidelines for determining and reporting outcomes for in fants born preterm that better reflect their health, neurodevelop mental, educational, social, and emotional outcomes across the life span and conduct research to determine methods that can be used to optimize these outcomes. Specifically, • Outcomes should be reported by gestational age categories, in addition to birth weight categories; and better methods of measuring fetal and infant maturity should be devised.
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These will allow improved counseling of the parents, enhance the safety of trials of interventions for mothers and their infants by providing more immediate feedback on infant development, and facilitate planning for the use of comprehensive follow-up and early intervention services. • Follow-up and outcome evaluations for infants involved in maternal trials of prenatal means of prevention or treatment of threatened preterm delivery and infant trials of means of prevention and treatment of organ injury not only should report the infant's gestational age at delivery and any neonatal morbidity but also should include neurological and cognitive outcomes.
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