Postnatal Growth and Retinopathy of Prematurity Study: Rationale, Design, and Subject Characteristics

摘要

Purpose: Postnatal-growt-based predictive models demonstrate strong: potential for improving the low specificity of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) screening. Prior studies are limited by inadequate sample size. We sought to study a sufficiently large cohort of at-risk infants to enable development of a model with highly precise estimates of sensitivity for severe ROP.