Table 1 Primary clinical areas of focus for studies using multicenter NICU databases
From: Multicenter neonatal databases: Trends in research uses
Primary clinical focus area | Count | Percent |
|---|---|---|
Respiratory treatments & outcomes | 67 | 19.53 |
Neurodevelopmental, growth, or language outcomes | 45 | 13.12 |
Outcomes of VLBW/ELBW | 39 | 11.37 |
Encephalopathy | 24 | 7.00 |
Neonatal infections | 18 | 5.25 |
Intestinal disease | 15 | 4.37 |
Sepsis | 14 | 4.08 |
Antenatal corticosteriod treatment | 10 | 2.92 |
Retinopathy of prematurity | 8 | 2.33 |
Hyperbilirubinemia | 8 | 2.33 |
Other | 95 | 27.70 |
Total | 343 | 100 |