Preterm Birth Prevention Studies Need To Look Beyond Makena Endpoints, Experts Say

Gestational age and a binary, neonatal composite endpoint are insufficient to assess outcomes that are important to babies and families, clinicians and researchers say, suggesting development of continuous variables or scales with weighted components and a comparison of outcomes among newborns in gestational age ‘buckets.’

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Endpoints for measuring outcomes in preterm babies require more nuance, one expert said. • Source: Shutterstock

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