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American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on August 27, 2008
American Journal of Epidemiology 2008 168(9):993-994; doi:10.1093/aje/kwn196
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American Journal of Epidemiology © The Author 2008. Published by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Response to Invited commentary

McElrath et al. Respond to "Disaggregating Preterm Birth"

T. F. McElrath, J. L. Hecht, O. Dammann, K. Boggess, A. Onderdonk, G. Markenson, M. Harper, E. Delpapa, E. N. Allred and A. Leviton

Correspondence to Dr. T. F. McElrath, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115 (e-mail: tmcelrath@partners.org).

Received for publication May 22, 2008. Accepted for publication May 27, 2008.

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We thank Dr. Savitz for his thoughtful comments (1) regarding our analysis (2). We are grateful that he put our paper in a broader context.

It is not evident in the epidemiologic literature, but there is a subtle disconnect between the in-hospital world of caring for women at risk for preterm delivery and the world of preterm birth as an . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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