PEDIATRICS Vol. 116 No. 6 December 2005, pp. 1597-1598 (doi:10.1542/peds.2005-2020)
Grade 3 to 4 Intraventricular Hemorrhage and Bayley Scores Predict Outcome
Laura R. Ment, MDDepartment of Pediatrics and Neurology,
Yale University School of Medicine,
New Haven, CT 06510
Walter C. Allan, MD
Department of Pediatric Neurology,
Maine Medical Center,
Portland, ME 04101
Robert W. Makuch, PhD
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health,
Yale University School of Medicine,
New Haven, CT 06510
Betty Vohr, MD
Department of Pediatrics,
Brown University School of Medicine,
Providence, RI 02905
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To the Editor.
We applaud the recent article by Hack et al,1 who make 2 very important points that cannot be overemphasized. The first point, that the Bayley scales are a poor predictor of eventual cognitive outcome, has been known to evaluators of normal populations. Thus, overly pessimistic predictions can arise when early cognitive performance is used as the
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