Between-hospital variation in treatment and outcomes in extremely preterm infants.

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Published in N Engl J Med on May 07, 2015

Authors

Matthew A Rysavy1, Lei Li, Edward F Bell, Abhik Das, Susan R Hintz, Barbara J Stoll, Betty R Vohr, Waldemar A Carlo, Seetha Shankaran, Michele C Walsh, Jon E Tyson, C Michael Cotten, P Brian Smith, Jeffrey C Murray, Tarah T Colaizy, Jane E Brumbaugh, Rosemary D Higgins, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Neonatal Research Network

Author Affiliations

1: From the Stead Family Department of Pediatrics (M.A.R., E.F.B., J.C.M., T.T.C., J.E.B.) and the Department of Epidemiology (M.A.R.), University of Iowa, Iowa City; the Social, Statistical, and Environmental Sciences Unit, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC (L.L.), and Rockville, MD (A.D.); Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA (S.R.H.); Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta (B.J.S.); Department of Pediatrics, Women and Infants' Hospital, Brown University, Providence, RI (B.R.V.); Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham (W.A.C.); Department of Pediatrics, Wayne State University, Detroit (S.S.); Department of Pediatrics, Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland (M.C.W.); Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston (J.E.T.); Department of Pediatrics, Duke University, Durham, NC (C.M.C., P.B.S.); and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD (R.D.H.).

Associated clinical trials:

Improving Outcome of Very Preterm Infants Using Collaborative Quality Improvement | NCT04531839

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