Abstract:In this issue of JAMA Pediatrics, a large population-based Canadian study by Louis et al 1 reports that children who were born preterm do not "catch up" to their term-born school-aged peers. 1 Extending previous work in children born very preterm, 2,3 the current study found delays across all school readiness domains in children born preterm compared with those born full term, especially among those born at earlier gestational ages (GAs). At first glance, these results seem to merely confirm the findings of pr… Show more
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