Premature or Small for Gestational Age Discrimination: International Multicenter Trial Protocol for Classification of the Low-Birth-Weight Newborn Through the Optical Properties of the Skin

Zilma Reis   ^{1 *} , MD, PhD ;   Gabriela Vitral   ^{1 *} , MSc ;   Rodney Guimarães   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Juliano Gaspar   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Enrico Colosimo   ² , PhD ;   Sergio Taunde   ³ , MD, MSc ;   Nilza Mussagy   ^{3 *} , MD ;   Rita Rosado Santos   ^{4 *} , MD ;   Diogo Ayres-De-Campos   ⁴ ;   Roberta Romanelli   ^{1 *} , MD, PhD

¹ Faculty of Medicine, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

² Statistics Department, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

³ Hospital Central de Maputo, Maputo, Mozambique

⁴ Faculty of Medicine, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

*these authors contributed equally