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The presentation will focus on the prevalence of developmental disability, congenital anomalies and other morbidity, and the correlates of these types of morbidity with antenatal and intrapartum events, socio-economic characteristics and medical care utilization in a population of one-year old infants. The data to be presented are derived from a survey of about 5,000 infants in 8 regions in the country (80% of those known to be living in the regions at the time of the survey), and represent the first such data set in the US for a large geographically based population. The data were obtained using an instrument combining an interview with direct observations of developmental activities during visits to the homes of infants selected randomly from births in each of the 8 regions, with an oversample of low birthweight infants. This survey is part of a project to evaluate the effectiveness of regionalization of perinatal care in the 8 regions, and complements the analysis of the infant, perinatal and neonatal mortality rates in these regions.
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Mccormick, M., Shapiro, S., Starfield, B. et al. 60 EVALUTION OF THE REGIONALIZATION OF PERINATAL CARE: MORBIDITY IN SURVIVING CHILDREN AT ONE-YEAR. Pediatr Res 12 (Suppl 4), 373 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-197804001-00065
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-197804001-00065