Follow-up of the graduates of neonatal intensive care is an important component of the provision of such care. However, the objectives of these programs and their data-collection strategies vary widely. This report describes the potential objectives and different data-collection strategies. It then reviews briefly what is known about the outcomes of very low birth weight infants to guide the development of assessment packets: Finally, we describe the operation of our program and activities of our team to illustrate the follow-up experience in a large multi-institution program.
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