(Abstracted from JAMA 2019;321(12):1188–1199) The long-term health outcomes for preterm infants have improved over time, but infants born at extreme preterm gestational ages continue to present issues of optimal antenatal and postnatal management, resource allocation and costs, quality of care, and long-term health outcomes. To better understand variations and time trends for management and outcomes of extremely preterm birth, study of international populations is needed.
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Norman et al. (2019) studied this question.