Neurodevelopmental outcome at 5.5 years in Dutch preterm infants born at 24–26 weeks’ gestational age: the EPI-DAF study

Objective After lowering the Dutch threshold for active treatment from 25 to 24 completed weeks’ gestation, survival to discharge increased by 10% in extremely preterm live born infants. Now that this guideline has been implemented, an accurate description of neurodevelopmental outcome at school age is needed. Design Population-based cohort study. Setting All neonatal intensive care units in the Netherlands. Patients All infants born between 24 0/7 and 26 6/7 weeks’ gestation who were 5.5 years’ corrected age (CA) in 2018–2020 were included. Main outcome measures Main outcome measure was neuro... Mehr ...