Strategies for assessing the impact of loss to follow-up on estimates of neurodevelopmental impairment in a very preterm cohort at 2 years of age

Table 3 Estimated prevalence of neurodevelopmental impairment after corrections for loss to follow-up using inverse probability weighting (IPW) and multiple imputation (MI)

MI models were adjusted for gestational age, multiple pregnancy, foreign-born mother or foreign ethnicity, mother's age, parity, breastfeeding at discharge, previous cesarean section, PPROM, antepartum hemorrhage, sex, Apgar at 5 min less than 7, any respiratory support, surfactant, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, any severe morbidity, congenital anomaly, surgery in neonatal unit, hospitalized in a level III unit, SES status, region and follow-up
IPW model were adjusted for multiple pregnancy, foreign-born mother or foreign ethnicity, mother's age, parity, breastfeeding at discharge, previous cesarean section, PPROM, respiratory support MV and CPAP, surfactant, hospitalized in a level III unit, SES status and region
^apercent increase in estimated prevalence corrected for selection bias compared to the crude estimate

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