PERINATAL TRIALS REPORT
PT0518
Optimising preterm infant outcomes: a RCT to evaluate two screening & surveillance methods
Plain Language Summary: Studies in the United Kingdom have shown the feasibility of collecting a standardised core of data with specific criteria for defining disability in children born very preterm at two years of age from questionnaires completed by parents and health care clinicians. Evaluation of outcomes for children born very preterm by questionnaires are important for the purpose of providing global and epidemiologic information on outcomes, and for planning of services. However, most of the available questionnaires are a subjective assessment of the child and liable to bias. We are proposing the use of questionnaires to collect late morbidity and disability data from the primary health sector in children born very preterm with the support of a structured preterm clinical pathway for screening and surveillance. The pathway has been designed to ensure standardised data collection providing a more objective and valid assessment of late morbidity and disability. It is not designed to replace specialist assessment of a child.
Trial status: Closed to accrual
Date trial closedto accrual: December 2003
Trial Objective:
To determine whether the use of a preterm clinical pathway enables general practitioners to accurately identify neurodevelopmental status at 12 months corrected age in infants born with a gestation <32 weeks.
An ancillary aim with future implications is to collect data on infant outcomes and their associations to design a population specific intervention aimed to improve neurodevelopmental outcome.
Type of administration: Multi-centre National
Prinicipal Investigator/s: Margo Pritchard
Ph 61 7 3636 5172
Email mpritchard@somc.uq.edu.au
Paul Colditz
Ph 61 7 3636 1761
Email pcolditz@somc.uq.edu.au
Contact Person/s: Margo Pritchard (as above)
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