Causes and Timing of Death in Extremely Premature Infants from 2000 through 2011

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Ravi M. Patel · Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

Sarah Kandefer · RTI International

Michele C. Walsh · Case Western Reserve University

Edward F. Bell · University of Iowa

Waldemar A. Carlo · University of Alabama at Birmingham

Abbot R. Laptook · Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island

Pablo J. Sánchez

Abstract

We found that from 2000 through 2011, overall mortality declined among extremely premature infants. Deaths related to pulmonary causes, immaturity, infection, and central nervous system injury decreased, while necrotizing enterocolitis-related deaths increased. (Funded by the National Institutes of Health.).

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Neonatal Respiratory Health Research Neuroscience of respiration and sleep Infant Development and Preterm Care

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Published in: New England Journal of Medicine

Volume 372, Issue 4, pp. 331-340

DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa1403489

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Causes and Timing of Death in Extremely Premature Infants from 2000 through 2011

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