Active Treatment and Survival Trends for Periviable Births by Race and Ethnicity

Nansi S Boghossian; Lucy T Greenberg; Erika M Edwards; Jeffrey D Horbar

doi:10.1001/jama.2025.3033

Active Treatment and Survival Trends for Periviable Births by Race and Ethnicity

JAMA. 2025 Jun 3;333(21):1925-1928. doi: 10.1001/jama.2025.3033.

Authors

Nansi S Boghossian¹, Lucy T Greenberg², Erika M Edwards^{2

3

4}, Jeffrey D Horbar^{2

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia.
² Vermont Oxford Network, Burlington.
³ Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Vermont, Burlington.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington.

PMID: 40287145
PMCID: PMC12034088 (available on 2025-10-26)
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2025.3033

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Plain language summary

This retrospective cohort study analyzes infants born prematurely between 2014 and 2023 to determine changes in the rate of active treatment and in-hospital survival over time and assess differences based on gestational age, race, and ethnicity.