Challenges in defining and classifying the preterm birth syndrome
Document Type
Article
Department
Women and Child Health
Abstract
In 2009, the Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth Conference charged the authors to propose a new comprehensive, consistent, and uniform classification system for preterm birth. This first article reviews issues related to measurement of gestational age, clinical vs etiologic phenotypes, inclusion vs exclusion of multifetal and stillborn infants, and separation vs combination of pathways to preterm birth. The second article proposes answers to the questions raised here, and the third demonstrates how the proposed system might work in practice.
Publication ( Name of Journal)
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Recommended Citation
Kramer, M.,
Papageorghiou, A.,
Culhane, J.,
Bhutta, Z. A.,
Goldenberg, R.,
Gravett, M.,
Iams, J.,
Conde-Agudelo, A.,
Waller, S.,
Barros, F.,
Knight, H.,
Villar, J.
(2012). Challenges in defining and classifying the preterm birth syndrome. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 206(2), 108-112.
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