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In brief
This correspondence addresses methodological questions regarding mortality trend analysis in very low birth weight infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia. The authors clarify their regression model adjustments for gestational age and other confounding variables, defending their statistical approach to temporal outcome comparisons.
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We appreciate the interest and comments from Drs. Lohmann and Garcia-Prats. Improvements in neonatal care has decreased the mortality of the VLBW population overall in the past decade [1]. We have run a regression analysis adjusted for gestational age, small for gestation age, inborn/outborn status, sex, multiple births, vaginal delivery, and 1-min Apgar score. The p-value on the interaction term between the CDH group and year was barely less than 0.05 (p
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