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Born just a few weeks early: does it matter?

2 Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK Correspondence to Elaine M Boyle, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, 22–28 Princess Road West, Leicester ...
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Naema Hamouda, Yosra AboEL-Azm, Kholoud Elsamman, Soha Nabil, Mohammed Tarek, Fatma Elzahraa Wasia, Ahmed Mostafa Amin, Ahmed Elshahat, Nourhan hassan, Ammar Mektebi, Abdelazem Khaled, Hatim Nasruldin ...
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Impact of Kaiser permanente early-onset sepsis risk calculator implementation in hospitals, England: pre–post intervention cohort analysis

Objective To investigate the impact of transition from National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines to Kaiser Permanente Neonatal Sepsis Risk Calculator (KP-SRC) on early-onset ...
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Epidemiology, management and outcome of ultrashort bowel syndrome in infancy

Correspondence to Professor Robert Mark Beattie, Department of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Southampton Children’s Hospital, University Hospital Southampton, Tremona road, Southampton, SO16 6YD, UK; ...
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Reference ranges for the linear dimensions of the intracranial ventricles in preterm neonates

Division of Neonatal Services, Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne 3053, Australia Dr M W Davies, Perinatal Research Centre, The Royal Women's Hospital, Bowen Bridge Road, Herston, Brisbane, QLD 4029, ...
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Blood cultures in newborns and children: optimising an everyday test

Correspondence to: Dr Buttery, Clinical Paediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia; butteryj{at}cryptic.rch.unimelb.edu.au ...
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Estimating neonatal length of stay for babies born very preterm

Objective To predict length of stay in neonatal care for all admissions of very preterm singleton babies. Setting All neonatal units in England. Patients Singleton babies born at 24–31 weeks ...
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Infants in a neonatal intensive care unit: parental response

1 Department of Psychological Medicine, Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences, PO Box 4345, Christchurch, New Zealand 2 Department of Pediatrics, Christchurch School of Medicine and ...
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Academic achievement in children born extremely preterm: a cohort study

Objective Children born extremely preterm (EPT) vary greatly regarding academic outcomes, underscoring the need to investigate subgroups in large representative samples. This study aimed to (1) ...
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Genetic considerations in perinatal stroke

Perinatal stroke refers to cerebrovascular diseases occurring between 20 weeks of fetal development and 28 days after birth. Although the risk of perinatal stroke is quite high, ranging from 1 in 1000 ...
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Metabolic bone disease of prematurity: causes, recognition, prevention, treatment and long-term consequences

Metabolic bone disease of prematurity (MBDP) is characterised by skeletal demineralisation, and in severe cases it can result in fragility fractures of long bones and ribs during routine handling.
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C reactive protein in healthy term newborns during the first 48 hours of life

Correspondence to Dr Serafina Perrone, Neonatal Care Unit, Department of Molecular and Developmental Medicine, University Hospital of Siena, Viale M. Bracci 16, 53100 Siena, Italy; saraspv{at}yahoo.it ...