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A -- SURVIVAL AND HEALTH STATUS ANALYSIS OF PREMATURE, HIGH RISK DELIVERIES IN THE 1991 LONGITUDINAL FOLLOW-UP TO THE 1988 NATIONAL MATERNAL AND INFANT HEALTH SURVEY SOL RFP NICHD-DESPR-95-16. DUE 051195. Contact Miss Virginia A. DeSeau/301/496-4611/Contract Specialist. The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) is planning to assess the level of technological support at delivery for survival of extremely premature deliveries. The available data that will be used for these assessments comes from the 1991 Longitudinal Follow-up (LF) Survey of the 1988 National Maternal and Infant Health Survey (NMIHS). The LF was created by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) as a nationally representative data base for studying children of the respondents in the 1988 NMIHS by interviewing respondents two to three years later (in 1991). The hospital of birth and other health providers were identified by each of the mothers of the children for whom a questionnaire was returned for the NMIHS. The LF included all women whose child was alive in 1991 plus samples from the fetal and infant deaths identified in the NMIHS. Additional information from the American Hospital Association (AHA) files is required for this analysis in order to link hospital data to the LF records. An offeror must demonstrate the capacity to provide the confidential data on hospitals from the AHA; to have successfully linked data from hospital records to other survey data, e.g., NMIHS data; and, to have performed complex multivariate analyses using linked datasets. The issuance of this RFP will be on or about May 11, 1995 and proposals will be due by 4:00 P.M. (Eastern Daylight Time), on June 30, 1995. Those organizations desiring a copy of the above RFP may send their written request to Miss Virginia A. DeSeau at the address listed above or by fax at (301)402-3676. All requests must cite the RFP number above and include two self addressed mailing labels (if a mail request). All sources who consider themselves qualified are encouraged to submit proposals. (115)

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