The Journal of Pediatrics
Volume 148, Issue 4 , Pages 438-444.e1 , April 2006

Early prediction of poor outcome in extremely low birth weight infants by classification tree analysis

Presented in part at the Pediatric Academic Societies’ Meeting, San Francisco, Calif, May 1–4, 2004.

Received 6 June 2005 ,Revised 28 September 2005 ,Accepted 30 November 2005.

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 Supported by the Medical Research Council of Canada MT-13288. US centers were supported in part by NICHD U10 HD21364, U10 HD27851, U10 HD21373, U10 HD27881; M01 RR 00997, U10 HD27880; M01 RR 00070, U10 HD21385, U10 HD27904, and U10 HD34216.

PII: S0022-3476(05)01163-7

doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2005.11.042

The Journal of Pediatrics
Volume 148, Issue 4 , Pages 438-444.e1 , April 2006

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