BACKGROUND
Background: Studying the neurological developmental outcomes and comparing correlations with MRI (Magnetic resonance image) versus the Hammersmith Infant Neurological Examination (HINE)
OBJECTIVE
Objective: To investigate the non-inferiority of MRI to HINE in infant developmental outcomes
METHODS
Settings: Hospital settings including pediatrics and neonatal care units
Intervention: No medical or surgical intervention is planned, only correlation and extra analyses would take place to standardize the current practice
Measurements: HINE, Brain MRI, Brain Ultrasound and developmental outcomes after 12 months
RESULTS
Results: The observations collected and correlations measured to figure out the reliability of both HINE and MRI in order to figure to what extent can we rely on HINE alone in expecting the developmental outcomes
CONCLUSIONS
The more reliability would expressed by HINE assessment the accurate expectation of developmental in preterm infants
CLINICALTRIAL
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03580252