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The Apgar Score and Infant Mortality

OBJECTIVE To evaluate if the Apgar score remains pertinent in contemporary practice after more than 50 years of wide use, and to assess the value of the Apgar score in predicting infant survival, expanding from the neonatal to the post-neonatal period. METHODS The U.S. linked live birth and infant death dataset was used, which included 25,168,052 singleton births and 768,305 twin births. The ...

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