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Assessment and Evaluation of the High Risk Neonate: The NICU Network Neurobehavioral Scale
Published on: August 25, 2014
[Comment on article "Risk factors associated with preterm birth in a second level hospital"]
Sofhya Marylett Sánchez-Morales1, Ivonne Analí Roy-García2, Rodolfo Rivas-Ruiz2
1Secretaría de Salud, Dirección General de Calidad y Educación en Salud. Ciudad de México, México.
Abstract:
Preterm birth is a worldwide problem with a high economic impact and morbimortality in children. Therefore, the literature has focused on finding modifiable factors associated with this entity, such as the study "Risk factors associated with preterm birth in a second level hospital," which concluded that "100% of risk factors associated with preterm birth are potentially preventable". Our team reanalyzed the results and found in the regression model that premature rupture of membranes was the only variable associated with preterm birth. This variable is not 100% preventable, so the results found are different from the authors' conclusions.
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