Maternity services. Volume II, Minutes of evidence.

  • Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Health Committee
Date:
1992
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    13 November 1991] [Continued 2. Kitchen, W. H., Rickards, A., Ryan, M. M., McDougall, A. B., Billsen, F. A., Keir, E. H., Naylor, F. D. A longitudinal study of very low birthweight infants. II: Results of controlled trial of intensive care and incidence of handicaps. Dev Med Child Neurol. 1979; 21:582—589. 3. McIlwaine, G. M., Mutch, L., Pritchard, C., Fletcher, D. V. (1989). The Scottish Low Birthweight Study. Report to the Scottish Home and Health Department. 4. Verloove-Vanhorick, S. P. and Verwey, R. A. (1987) Project on preterm and small for gestational age infants in the Netherlands 1983. Pub. J. H. Pasman, B. V.’s Gravenhage. TABLE | Morbidity rates from population based studies of very low birthweight infants (below or equal to 1500g) from Mcllwaine et al, 1989. No. (%) Survivors Assessed Yearsof B.W. No.(%) survivors Neurol. Visual Hearing MRSev. Site Study Group seen Imp. def. def. dev. delay Mansfield 1963-71 <1501g 131/137 (95.6) 17(13.0) 14(10.7) 3 (2.3) II (8.4) Hamilton, Ontario 1973-78 <150lg 166/179 (92.7) 30(18.1) 16 (9.6) N/A 9 (5.4) Wolverhampton 1975-79 <I1501g 67/ 68 (98.5) 6 (8.9) 6 (8.9) 4 (6.0) 27 + 6 Mersey 1979-81 <1501lg 322/353 (91.2) 25 (7.8) 11 (3.4) 3 (0.9) 14 (4.3) Newfoundland 1980-81 <1500g 79/ 82 (96.3) TED cea RY WS OGRE 7 (8.8) Netherlands* 1983 <1500g 751/770 (97.5) 73 (9.7) 82(10.9) 24 (3.2) 48 (6.4) Northern Reg** 1983 <1500g 202/202 (100.0) 15 (7.4) 29(14.4) 13 (6.4) 13 (6.4) Scotland 1984 <1500g 307/373 (82.3) 33(10.7) 12 (3.9) 9 (2.9) 4 (1.3) Neurol. impairment = any motor deficit of central origin. Visual deficit = any abnormality of vision incl. squint. Hearing deficit = any reported hearing loss. MR/severe development delay. MR = IQ <70. Severe development delay = too young for psychometric testing but severly delayed DQ < 70: Netherlands definition <90 or more than 3 months delay. * Van Zeeben van de Aa. MD Thesis (1989). ** Acknowledgements and thanks to these authors for re-analysis of their data for chiidren < 1500g at birth.