title: How should we report on perinatal outcome?
abstract: Authors should report on neonatal outcome after ART in a well-defined and uniform way, to enable readers to compare the outcome of different studies. For reporting on birthweight, SD scores (z-scores) are to be preferred, customized for the most important physiological variables affecting birthweight, e.g. gestational age, gender of the child and whether it is a singleton or part of a multiple. It may be suggested that ESHRE should support the construction of European customized birthweight tables and make available a software for calculating the z-scores in cohorts.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Academisch Ziekenhuis Maastricht, P.O. Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht, The Netherlands. jlan@sgyn.azm.nl
authors.forename: Jolande A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Land
mesh_terms: D001724:Birth Weight; D004624:Embryo Transfer / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011247:Pregnancy; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D020554:Sperm Injections, Intracytoplasmic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data