The value of entry criteria in follow-up clinics for neonatal intensive care unit graduates.

The risk factors used as entry criteria to a service follow-up clinic for a group of neonatal intensive care unit graduates over a 10-year period were compared with neurodevelopmental outcome at one year corrected age. Although most of the individual risk factors did not show significance, two markers associated with the risk factors did: severe encephalopathy and abnormal cranial ultrasound. Of the patients who came for a year, 46% were detected as being abnormal. One-third of the abnormal children weighed more than 1500 g.