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lifeskim:mentions | |
pubmed:issue |
3
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pubmed:dateCreated |
1995-11-28
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pubmed:abstractText |
We studied the efficiency of two common sampling strategies used to assemble cohorts to study the long-term problems of preterm infants: infants with birthweights of 500-1499 g, and infants with gestational ages (GA) of < 31 weeks. Birthweight, GA and 2-year outcome data from a population based study of infants < 2001 g, the Central New Jersey Brain Hemorrhage Study (NBH), were used to define the birthweight and GA distributions, at enrollment and at the age of 2 years, of overlapping subsets: infants 500-1499 g (n = 599) and infants < 31 weeks of age (n = 522). Using frequencies from the NBH study, we estimated that 1000 infants of 500-1499 g enrolled at birth would produce 712 infants at the age of 2 years, 498 below 31 weeks and 214 above. Enrolling 1000 infants < 31 weeks would produce a cohort of 697 infants at the age of 2, all of whom were < 31 weeks. Neither sampling strategy maximised the statistical power to investigate the pathophysiological determinants of long-term outcomes associated with short GA. Both methods oversampled older GAs. A stratified sampling technique based on GA, designed to produce equal numbers of subjects at each week of GA, would improve statistical power to study long-term outcomes. As we move from descriptive to analytical studies of preterm infants, we need to devise efficient, GA-based, sampling strategies that maximise statistical power to test pathophysiological hypotheses.
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pubmed:language |
eng
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pubmed:journal | |
pubmed:citationSubset |
IM
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pubmed:status |
MEDLINE
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pubmed:month |
Jul
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pubmed:issn |
0269-5022
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pubmed:author | |
pubmed:issnType |
Print
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pubmed:volume |
9
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pubmed:owner |
NLM
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pubmed:authorsComplete |
Y
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pubmed:pagination |
341-50
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pubmed:dateRevised |
2004-11-17
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pubmed:meshHeading |
pubmed-meshheading:7479282-Birth Weight,
pubmed-meshheading:7479282-Cohort Studies,
pubmed-meshheading:7479282-Follow-Up Studies,
pubmed-meshheading:7479282-Gestational Age,
pubmed-meshheading:7479282-Humans,
pubmed-meshheading:7479282-Infant, Newborn,
pubmed-meshheading:7479282-Infant, Premature,
pubmed-meshheading:7479282-Research Design,
pubmed-meshheading:7479282-Sampling Studies,
pubmed-meshheading:7479282-Selection Bias
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pubmed:year |
1995
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pubmed:articleTitle |
Efficiency of sampling: birthweight and gestational age distributions in two cohorts, < 31 weeks and 500-1499 grams.
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pubmed:affiliation |
G.H. Sergievsky Center, New York, New York 10032, USA.
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pubmed:publicationType |
Journal Article,
Multicenter Study
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