100 Neonatal Disease Severity Scores and their Predictive Value 3For Early Mortality: A Population-Based Study on Subgroups of VLBW Infants

Background and aims Benchmarking of newborn mortality needs risk-adjustment of data for heterogeneous sub-populations. To assess utility of neonatal disease severity scores CRIB, CRIB-II and PREM and impact of influenceable items (FiO2max, FiO2min, body temperature (BT) base excess (BE)) to predict mortality in VLBW infants (VLBW), ELBW infants Methods Analysis of birth cohorts of years 2003–2008 from the Baden-Wurttemberg registry. Inclusion criteria: GA Results Total of 5.340 cases, 862 cases Conclusions Standard CRIB is superior to standard CRIB-II, standard PREM, and all score modifications without influenceable items. No difference exists between the 3 scores when omitting influenceable parameters. For ELBW infants