Evidence-Based Neonatal Unit Practices and Determinants of Postnatal Corticosteroid-Use in Preterm Births below 30 Weeks GA in Europe. A Population-Based Cohort Study

• Alexandra Nuytten ,

  * E-mail: anuytten@gmail.com

  Current address: Department of Neonatalogy, CHRU Lille, Lille, France

  Affiliations Department of Neonatology, Jeanne de Flandre Hospital, Lille CHRU, Lille France, Department of biostatistics, Univ. Lille, CHRU Lille, EA 2694—Lille, France

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• Hélène Behal,

  Affiliation Department of biostatistics, Univ. Lille, CHRU Lille, EA 2694—Lille, France

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• Alain Duhamel,

  Affiliation Department of biostatistics, Univ. Lille, CHRU Lille, EA 2694—Lille, France

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• Pierre-Henri Jarreau,

  Affiliation Université Paris V René Descartes and Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpitaux Universitaire Paris Centre Site Cochin, Service de Médecine et Réanimation néonatales de Port-Royal, Paris, France

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• Jan Mazela,

  Affiliation Department of Neonatology, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland

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• David Milligan,

  Affiliation Newcastle University Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

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• Ludwig Gortner,

  Affiliation Children´s Hospital, University Hospital, University of Saarland, Homburg/Saar, Germany

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• Aurélie Piedvache,

  Affiliation Inserm UMR 1153, Obstetrical, Perinatal and Pediatric Epidemiology Research Team (Epopé), Center for Epidemiology and Statistics Sorbonne Paris Cité, DHU Risks in pregnancy, Paris Descartes University, Paris, France

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• Jennifer Zeitlin,

  Affiliation Inserm UMR 1153, Obstetrical, Perinatal and Pediatric Epidemiology Research Team (Epopé), Center for Epidemiology and Statistics Sorbonne Paris Cité, DHU Risks in pregnancy, Paris Descartes University, Paris, France

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• Patrick Truffert,

  Affiliations Department of Neonatology, Jeanne de Flandre Hospital, Lille CHRU, Lille France, Department of biostatistics, Univ. Lille, CHRU Lille, EA 2694—Lille, France

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• On behalf of the EPICE (Effective Perinatal Intensive Care in Europe) Research Group

  ¶Membership of the EPICE Research Group is provided in the Acknowledgments

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