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Background: We showed that a predictive model with eight perinatal risk factors correctly predicts pre-discharge mortality (ESPR 2009). We aim to predict neonatal survival without severe IVH and/ or PVL.
Methods: In 2006-07, EuroNeoNet collected data from 5,270 VLBW/ VLGA infants (< 32 weeks), admitted before day 28 to 65 NICUs from 14 European countries. A combined outcome for postdischarge survival without grades3,4 IVH and cystic PVL was used. Regression models to predict survival and combined outcome were developed adjusted for perinatal factors by step-wise selection. Calibration by Hosmer-Lemeshow and discrimination by area under ROC curve was used, latter validated on a different sample. Models to predict combined outcome adjusted by birthweight and/or gestation were also performed. Comparisons between models were based on non-parametric tests over ROC curves.
Results: Mean(±SD) gestation was 28.6(2.7) weeks and birthweight 1,178(382) g. Adding the need for resuscitation at birth (more than just O2 therapy) to previously developed model for survival (gestation, birthweight, gender, prenatal-steroiduse, delivery-mode, 1 and 5-min Apgar scores and major congenital anomalies) correctly predicted survival without severe IVH and PVL (AUC: 0.825; 95%;CI 0.81-0.84; H&L: 0.489; validation sample: H&L:0.061, AUC 0.829;95%CI:0.807-0.85). This model performed better than those based on birthweight and/or gestation.
Conclusion: Score based on nine initial risk factors adjusted for neonatal survival without severe IVH and PVL can be used as a short-term surrogate for risk of adverse developmental outcome at followup. The score could be used to measure quality improvement initiatives.
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Valls I Soler, A., Azpeitia, A. & Pijoan, J. 1137 Initial Risk Score Predicts Survival without Severe Intraventricularhemorrhage (IVH) and/or Periventricular-Leukomalacia (PVL) in Very-Low-Birthweight (VLBW) or Verylow-Gestational-Age (VLGA) Infants. Pediatr Res 68 (Suppl 1), 563 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-201011001-01137
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-201011001-01137