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Inbal Goldshtein¹, Guy Amit², Meytal Avgil Tsadok³

¹KI Research Institute, Kfar Malal, Israel. inbal@kinstitute.org.il.

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Standard age correction accurately assesses preterm children

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Pediatric Development
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Developmental Pediatrics

Background:

Standard practice involves calculating preterm children's age from their expected due date.
Previous evidence on age correction accuracy is limited.
Assessing accuracy in a large, diverse population is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

To evaluate the accuracy of standard age correction for preterm children.
To compare developmental milestones between term and preterm infants.
To identify potential underestimations in developmental assessments.

Main Methods:

Utilized routine surveillance data from a national network of mother-child clinics.
Included children without developmental delay at age 2 years.
Calculated milestone attainment ages and compared between term and preterm groups before and after age correction.

Main Results:

Analyzed data from 656,986 term and 52,662 preterm children.
Without age correction, significant developmental gaps were observed in all preterm infants.
Age correction resolved most gaps for moderate/late preterm but not for very/extremely preterm infants, showing residual delays of 1-2 months.

Conclusions:

Standard age correction is adequate for moderate and late preterm children.
It underestimates developmental delays in very and extremely preterm infants.
Maturational delays persist in preterm children, necessitating accurate age correction for appropriate developmental assessment.