#438 - 🔵 [PAS 2026] - Are We Correcting for Gestational Age Long Enough in Our Most Premature Infants? (ft. Dr. Allison Lure)

Send us Fan MailDr. Allison Lure, neonatologist and clinical informatics fellow, presents findings from a large primary care network spanning over 80 practices in Massachusetts on how term and preterm infants grow longitudinally after discharge. She shares why the standard practice of correcting for gestational age until two years may be sufficient for moderate and late preterm infants but falls short for babies born below 32 weeks — who may need correction extended to three years or beyond to avoid being misclassified as failing to thrive. She also sheds light on the often-overlooked growth trajectories of moderate and late preterm babies, a population rarely captured in NICU follow-up clinics, and explains what her work in clinical informatics is teaching her about how to store, structure, and extract meaningful data from the electronic health record.Support the showAs always, feel free to send us questions, comments, or suggestions to our email: [email protected]. You can also contact the show through Instagram or Twitter, @nicupodcast. Or contact Ben and Daphna directly via their Twitter profiles: @drnicu and @doctordaphnamd. The papers discussed in today's episode are listed and timestamped on the webpage linked below.Enjoy!