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Premature infants, low birth weight

 

Australia

• Better Safer Care
  • The late preterm infant - care and management

• Queensland Clinical Guidelines
  • Term small for gestational age newborn baby

Australia, New Zealand

• BMJ Paediatrics Open
  • Prediction of outcomes of extremely low gestational age newborns in Australia and New Zealand [2017]

Bangladesh

• International Health
  • Mapping the prevalence and socioeconomic predictors of low birth weight among Bangladeshi newborns: evidence from the 2019 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey [2022]

• PLoS ONE
  • Socioeconomic inequality in the prevalence of low birth weight and its associated determinants in Bangladesh [2022]

Brazil

• BMJ Open
  • Burden of early-term birth on adverse infant outcomes: a population-based cohort study in Brazil [2017]

Canada

• BMC Pediatrics
  • Regional variation in cost of neonatal intensive care for extremely preterm infants [2021]
  • The economic burden of prematurity in Canada [2014]

• Canadian Paediatric Society
  • Follow-up care of the extremely preterm infant after discharge from the neonatal intensive care unit [2022]
  • Discharge planning of the preterm infant [2022]
  • Going home: Facilitating discharge of the preterm infant [2016]
  • Assessment of cardiorespiratory stability using the infant car seat challenge before discharge in preterm infants (<37 weeks’ gestational age) [2016]

Chile

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Trends in gestational age and birth weight in Chile, 1991--2008. A descriptive epidemiological study [2012]

China

• China CDC Weekly
  • Trends in Mortality of Low Birth Weight Infants - China, 2004-2019 [2022]

• JAMA Network Open
  • Mortality and Morbidity of Infants Born Extremely Preterm at Tertiary Medical Centers in China From 2010 to 2019 [2021]
  • Estimated Survival and Major Comorbidities of Very Preterm Infants Discharged Against Medical Advice vs Treated With Intensive Care in China [2021]
  • Assessment of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Practices, Morbidity, and Mortality Among Very Preterm Infants in China [2021]

• Scientific Reports
  • Prevalence of low birth weight and macrosomia estimates based on heaping adjustment method in China [2021]

• Translational Pediatrics
  • Neonatal outcome of small for gestational age infants born at 26–33 weeks’ gestation in Chinese neonatal intensive care units [2021]

Cuba

• Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
  • Low Birth Weight Outcomes: Why Better in Cuba Than Alabama? [2013]

Denmark

• Acta Paediatrica
  • Comparing minimally invasive and proactive initial management of extremely preterm infants [2014]

Developing countries

• Journal of Epidemiology
  • Meta-Analysis: Identification of Low Birthweight by Other Anthropometric Measurements at Birth in Developing Countries [2011]

Ethiopia

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Prevalence of and socioeconomic gradient in low birth weight in Ethiopia: further analysis of the 2016 demographic and health survey data [2020]

• BMJ Paediatrics Open
  • Spatial distribution and factors associated with low birth weight in Ethiopia using data from Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey 2016: spatial and multilevel analysis [2021]

• Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences
  • Prevalence and Predictors of “Small Size” Babies in Ethiopia: In-depth Analysis of the Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey, 2011 [2016]

• Global Pediatric Health
  • Factors Associated with the Death of Preterm Babies Admitted to Neonatal Intensive Care Units in Ethiopia: A Prospective, Cross-sectional, and Observational Study [2020]

France

• BMC Health Services Research
  • Prenatal and post-natal cost of small for gestational age infants: a national study [2017]

• International Journal of Epidemiology
  • Cohort Profile: the Etude Epidémiologique sur les Petits Ages Gestationnels-2 (EPIPAGE-2) preterm birth cohort [2021]

Germany

• Frontiers in Pediatrics
  • Mortality and Major Morbidity of Very-Low-Birth-Weight Infants in Germany 2008–2012: A Report Based on Administrative Data [2016]

India

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Small for gestational age births among South Indian women: temporal trend and risk factors from 1996 to 2010 [2015]

• PLoS ONE
  • Maternal determinants of low birth weight among Indian children: Evidence from the National Family Health Survey-4, 2015-16 [2020]

International

• BMJ
  • Management and outcomes of extreme preterm birth [2022]

• BMJ Global Health
  • Diagnostic accuracy of neonatal foot length to identify preterm and low birthweight infants: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]

• Intergrowth-21st
  • Postnatal growth standards for preterm infants: the Preterm Postnatal Follow-up Study of the INTERGROWTH-21st Project [2015]

• JAMA Pediatrics
  • Global, Regional, and National Incidence and Mortality of Neonatal Preterm Birth, 1990-2019 [2022]

• Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
  • Management of the Child Born Small for Gestational Age through to Adulthood: A Consensus Statement of the International Societies of Pediatric Endocrinology and the Growth Hormone Research Society [2007]

• Journal of International Medical Research
  • Global prevalence of long-term neurodevelopmental impairment following extremely preterm birth: a systematic literature review [2021]

• Journal of Nutrition
  • WHO Child Growth Standards Are Often Incorrectly Applied to Children Born Preterm in Epidemiologic Research [2015]

• Pediatric Research
  • Preterm birth–associated neurodevelopmental impairment estimates at regional and global levels for 2010 [2013]

• Pediatrics
  • Guidelines for the Management of Extremely Premature Deliveries: A Systematic Review [2015]

• PLoS ONE
  • Categorising interventions to levels of inpatient care for small and sick newborns: Findings from a global survey [2019]

• Reproductive Health
  • Born Too Soon: Care for the preterm baby [2013]

• Vaccine
  • Low birth weight: Case definition & guidelines for data collection, analysis, and presentation of maternal immunization safety data [2017]

Iran

• Heliyon
  • Epidemiology of low birth weight in Iran: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]

• Journal of Pregnancy
  • A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis on the Prevalence of Low Birth Weight Infants in Iran [2020]

Israel

• Journal of Perinatal Medicine
  • Improved method for revising the Israel birthweight references [2022]

Italy

• Italian Journal of Pediatrics
  • Hexavalent vaccines in preterm infants: an update by Italian Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology jointly with the Italian Society of Neonatology [2019]
  • Cost of care and social consequences of very low birth weight infants without premature- related morbidities in Italy [2015]

Japan

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Factors associated with birthweight decline in Japan (1980–2004) [2021]

• Frontiers in Reproductive Health
  • Twenty-Year Trends of Low Birth Weight in Japan: A Joinpoint Regression Analysis of Data From 2000 to 2019 [2021]

• Scientific Reports
  • Japanese secular trends in birthweight and the prevalence of low birthweight infants during the last three decades: A population-based study [2016]

Jordan

• Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal
  • Prevalence and risk factors for low birth weight in Jordan and its association with under-five mortality: a population-based analysis [2020]

Latin America

• BMC Pediatrics
  • Latin American Consensus: Children Born Small for Gestational Age [2011]

Low and middle income countries

• BMJ Global Health
  • Evidence-based interventions to reduce mortality among preterm and low-birthweight neonates in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]

• Journal of Global Health
  • Interventions to reduce preterm birth and stillbirth, and improve outcomes for babies born preterm in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review [2021]

• Lancet Global Health
  • National and regional estimates of term and preterm babies born small for gestational age in 138 low-income and middle-income countries in 2010 [2013]

• PLoS ONE
  • ELBW and ELGAN outcomes in developing nations–Systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]

• Reproductive Health
  • Regional trends in birth weight in low- and middle-income countries 2013–2018 [2020]

Malaysia

• BMJ Paediatrics Open
  • Ten-year trend of care practices, morbidities and survival of very preterm neonates in the Malaysian National Neonatal Registry: a retrospective cohort study [2021]

Mexico

• PLoS ONE
  • Incidence of low birth weight in Mexico: A descriptive retrospective study from 2008–2017 [2021]

Netherlands

• Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and Neonatal Edition
  • Survival and causes of death in extremely preterm infants in the Netherlands [2021]

New Zealand

• Starship
  • Extremely Low Birth Weight Skin Care Management [2020]
  • Practice recommendations for skin care of neonates < 28 weeks gestation [2019]
  • Practice Recommendation for the bundle of neonatal care at 23-24 weeks gestation [2019]
  • Hyperkalaemia in the neonate [2019]

OECD countries

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Low birth weight trends in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries, 2000–2015: economic, health system and demographic conditionings [2021]

Oman

• Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal
  • Increasing Incidence of Infants with Low Birth Weight in Oman [2015]

Pacific Islands

• Lancet Regional Health: Western Pacific
  • Prevalence and risk factors of adverse birth outcomes in the Pacific Island region: A scoping review [2022]

Qatar

• PLoS ONE
  • Incidence, risk factors, and feto-maternal outcomes of inappropriate birth weight for gestational age among singleton live births in Qatar: A population-based study [2021]

Republic of Korea

• Journal of Korean Medical Science
  • Mortality Rate and Major Causes of Death by Gestational Age in Korean Children under 5 Years of Age [2020]
  • National Registry Data from Korean Neonatal Network: Two-Year Outcomes of Korean Very Low Birth Weight Infants Born in 2013–2014 [2018]
  • Percentile Distributions of Birth Weight according to Gestational Ages in Korea (2010-2012) [2016]
  • Changes in Survival Rate for Very-Low-Birth-Weight Infants in Korea: Comparison with Other Countries [2015]

Saudi Arabia

• Journal of Clinical Neonatology
  • The golden hour approach: Practical guidelines of the Saudi neonatology society on managing very low birth weight infants in the first hour of life [2016]

South-East Asia

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
  • Antenatal Care Services and Incidence of Low Birth Weight: A Comparison of Demographic and Health Surveys in 4 ASEAN Countries [2022]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• PLoS ONE
  • Prevalence of low birth weight and its associated factor at birth in Sub-Saharan Africa: A generalized linear mixed model [2021]

Sweden

• Acta Paediatrica
  • Perinatal risk factors for mortality in very preterm infants-A nationwide, population-based discriminant analysis [2022]

• JAMA
  • Association Between Year of Birth and 1-Year Survival Among Extremely Preterm Infants in Sweden During 2004-2007 and 2014-2016 [2019]

Switzerland

• Acta Paediatrica
  • Swiss medical centres vary significantly when it comes to outcomes of neonates with a very low gestational age [2015]

Tanzania

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Risk factors for small-for-gestational-age and preterm births among 19,269 Tanzanian newborns [2016]

United Kingdom

• BMC Pediatrics
  • A national survey of admission practices for late preterm infants in England [2014]

• British Association of Perinatal Medicine
  • Framework: Early Postnatal Care of the Moderate-Late Preterm Infant [2023]
  • Pre-hospital management of the baby born at extreme preterm gestation [2022]
  • Perinatal Management of Extreme Preterm Birth Before 27 weeks of Gestation (2019) [2019]

• GG&C Paediatric Guidelines
  • Hyperglycemia in the neonate

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • Developmental follow-up of children and young people born preterm (Quality standard) [2018]
  • Developmental follow-up of children and young people born preterm [2017]

• PLoS Medicine
  • All-Cause Mortality of Low Birthweight Infants in Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence: Population Study of England and Wales [2016]

United States

• Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine
  • ABM Clinical Protocol #12: Transitioning the Breastfeeding Preterm Infant from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit to Home, Revised 2018 [2018]

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Updates on an At-Risk Population: Late-Preterm and Early-Term Infants [2019]
  • Diagnosis and Management of Gastroesophageal Reflux in Preterm Infants [2018]
  • Safe Transportation of Preterm and Low Birth Weight Infants at Hospital Discharge [2013]
  • "Late-Preterm" Infants: A Population at Risk [2010]

• BMC Public Health
  • Trends in infants born at low birthweight and disparities by maternal race and education from 2003 to 2018 in the United States [2021]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Measuring Gestational Age in Vital Statistics Data: Transitioning to the Obstetric Estimate [2015]
  • Birthweight

• Children
  • Trends in Costs of Birth Hospitalization and Readmissions for Late Preterm Infants [2021]

• JAMA
  • Trends in Care Practices, Morbidity, and Mortality of Extremely Preterm Neonates, 1993–2012 [2015]

• JAMA Network Open
  • Association of Active Postnatal Care With Infant Survival Among Periviable Infants in the US [2023]

• Maternal Health, Neonatology and Perinatology
  • Prematurity and low birth weight: geospatial analysis and recent trends [2022]

• National Perinatal Association
  • Multidisciplinary guidelines for the care of late preterm infants [2013]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • WHO recommendations for care of the preterm or low-birth-weight infant [2022]
  • UNICEF-WHO low birthweight estimates: levels and trends 2000-2015 [2019]
  • Survive and thrive: transforming care for every small and sick newborn [2019]
  • Global nutrition targets 2025: low birth weight policy brief [2014]
  • Low birthweighth - Country, regional and global estimates [2004]
  • Preterm and low birth weight infants
  • Low birth weight, prevalence (%)
  • Low birth weight (in thousands)
  • Low birth weight (WHO Mortality Database)

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