1. Adequacy of published screening criteria for retinopathy of prematurity
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Helen Fabel, Miriam C Keane, Peter Marshall, Dickson D-S Oh, and Deepa A Taranath
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National health ,Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,Birth weight ,Gestational age ,Retinopathy of prematurity ,Disease ,medicine.disease ,Retrospective data ,03 medical and health sciences ,Ophthalmology ,0302 clinical medicine ,030225 pediatrics ,030221 ophthalmology & optometry ,medicine ,Tertiary level ,business ,Developed country - Abstract
BACKGROUND Criteria for screening preterm infants for retinopathy of prematurity vary around the world. We aimed to analyse the efficacy of alternative screening criteria. DESIGN We collected retrospective data at a tertiary level neonatal nursery. PARTICIPANTS Our participants were 1007 babies, born between 1997 and 2011, at
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- 2016
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