Gestational age definition
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Gestational age is missing for 20% of the registered early neonatal deaths in the civil data of Statistics Netherlands.
Gestational age at delivery is reported based on either mother’s last menstrual period or clinical ultrasound, depending on the method recorded on the birth certificate.
In the LFUPP-1996/97 cohort 24% (29 of 121) of infants whose mothers were treated antenatally with a full course of corticosteroids (2 doses) developed severe RDS (grade 3 to 4) compared with 45 (35%) of 126 in the incompletely or non- POPS 83 LFUPP 96/97 day of death Gestational age ≥ 27 cumulative survival POPS 83 LFUPP 96/97 Gestational age < 27 cumulative survival treated infants (p = .04).
Gestational age was calculated based on the infant’s date of birth and the mother’s report of the date of her last menstrual period (LMP).
Gestational age was categorized into 4 classes: <28 weeks, 28-32 weeks, 33-36 weeks, or ≥37weeks.