Journal article
Impact of extreme prematurity on families of adolescent children
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To compare the impact of burden of illness on families of teenaged children who were extremely low birth weight (ELBW) with that of members of a term control group (C) and to determine whether the attitudes toward active treatment of very immature infants differ between the 2 cohorts.
DESIGN: In a cross-sectional survey, parents of 145 (86%) of 169 members of an ELBW cohort and 123 (85%) of 145 members of a control cohort completed …
Authors
Saigal S; Burrows E; Stoskopf BL; Rosenbaum PL; Streiner D
Journal
The Journal of Pediatrics, Vol. 137, No. 5, pp. 701–706
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
November 2000
DOI
10.1067/mpd.2000.109001
ISSN
0022-3476