{"id":7609,"date":"2019-05-22T15:58:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/corrected_age\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:58:43","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:58:43","slug":"corrected_age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/corrected_age\/","title":{"rendered":"Corrected age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Postnatal age minus the number of weeks born before the gestational age of 40 weeks. &nbsp;For example, an infant born at 30 weeks gestation and tested at 20 weeks after birth has a corrected age of 20 a (40-30) = 10 weeks. &nbsp;This preterm infant can then be compared to full term infants with a postnatal age of 10 weeks. &nbsp;The rationale for using corrected age is that development is a function of time since conception and not time from birth. &nbsp;Thus, corrected age matches preterm and full term infants in terms of &#8216;level of maturity&#8217;. &nbsp;There is still an outgoing debate as to how long corrected age should be used and for which functions in assessing the development of preterm infants.<\/p>\n<p>See Chronological (or postnatal) age, <a href=\"gestational_age\">Gestational age<\/a>, Preterm infant<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Postnatal age minus the number of weeks born before the gestational age of 40 weeks. &nbsp;For example, an infant born at 30 weeks gestation and tested at 20 weeks after birth has a corrected age of 20 a (40-30) = 10 weeks. &nbsp;This preterm infant can then be compared to full term infants with a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/corrected_age\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Corrected age&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}