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Bookmark or Share- Extremely Preterm Birth Outcomes Tool | NICHD - NICHD - Eunice Kennedy ...Healthcare providers and families face significant challenges in making care decisions for extremely preterm infants. They make decisions about individual infants based on each infant’s situation and using the best available information at the time. Through its research, NICHD aims to better inform healthcare providers and families about the health, survival, and development of infants born ...
- Extremely Preterm Birth Outcomes Tool - NICHDThis tool provides a range of possible outcomes for infants born extremely preterm. The outcomes are based on data from infants born at specific U.S. hospitals between 2006 and 2012. “Hospital range” in the tool results represent outcomes for 80% of hospitals included in this study (10th to 90th percentiles). Please note that the tool describes outcomes for groups of infants with similar ...
- What causes preterm labor and birth? | NICHD - NICHD - Eunice Kennedy ...The causes of preterm labor and premature birth are numerous, complex, and only partly understood. Medical, psychosocial, and biological factors may all play a role in preterm labor and birth. There are three main situations in which preterm labor and premature birth may occur: Spontaneous preterm labor and birth.
- Preterm Labor and Birth | NICHD - NICHD - Eunice Kennedy Shriver ...Labor that begins before 37 weeks is called preterm labor (or premature labor). A birth that occurs before 37 weeks is considered a preterm birth. Preterm birth is the most common cause of infant death and is the leading cause of long-term disability related to the nervous system in children.
- Preterm Labor and Birth - NICHD - Eunice Kennedy Shriver National ...In general, a normal human pregnancy is about 40 weeks long (9.2 months). Health care providers now define “full-term” birth as birth that occurs between 39 weeks and 40 weeks and 6 days of pregnancy. 1 Infants born during this time are considered full-term infants. Infants born in the 37th and 38th weeks of pregnancy—previously called ...
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