Progress in assessing the long-term outcome of extremely low-birth-weight infants

Article Abstract:

Much research is still needed on the effectiveness of neonatal intensive care for extremely low-birth-weight babies. A 1996 study that followed a group of low-birth-weight babies until they were teenagers found that many of the teens scored equally well on measures of quality of life as teens who had a normal birth weight. However, this does not prove that intensive care is effective, since it was not commonly used at the time they were born. In addition, the results of the study may not be applicable to other groups of premature infants.

Editorial, Analysis, Prognosis, Quality of life, Disabled youth

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Results at age 8 years of early intervention for low-birth-weight premature infants: the Infant Health and Development Program

Article Abstract:

Some interventions given to low-birth-weight premature infants do not seem to have lasting effects. Researchers tested 874 8-year-old children who had received special services from birth to the age of three. A total of 336 had received the special treatment, while the remaining 538 received no special treatment. The tests measured intellectual ability, academic achievement, and behavior. Children in both groups had similar test scores, although the special treatment seemed to help children who weighed 2,001 grams or more at birth.

Testing, Child development

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Comprehensive Follow-up Care and Life-Threatening Illnesses Among High-Risk Infants A Randomized Controlled Trial

Article Abstract:

Comprehensive care provided by a clinic can lower the rate of life-threatening illnesses in very-low-birth-weight babies without increasing costs. This was the conclusion of a study of 784 babies who were randomly assigned to usual care or comprehensive care.

Evaluation, Medical care

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