Epidemiology of preterm birth: Authors' reply

doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7477.1287-a

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Janet Tucker, senior researcher (j.s.tucker@abdn.ac.uk),
William McGuire, senior lecturer in neonatal medicine

Dugald Baird Centre, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB25 2ZL
Tayside Institute of Child Health, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 9SY

EDITOR—In noting antenatal steroids and exogenous surfactants as two specific perinatal interventions that have contributed to trends in improved outcomes for very preterm infants, Hutchon thinks that we have omitted to include delayed cord clamping. We argue that whereas there is robust evidence from larger trials …