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A retrospective clinical study of consecutively asymptomatic women with twin pregnancies from January 2017 to December 2019 in two tertiary medical centres was performed. Data from one centre were used to construct the model, and data from the other were used to evaluate the model. Data on maternal demographic characteristics, transvaginal cervical length and funnelling during 20\u201324\u00a0weeks were extracted. The prediction model was constructed with independent variables determined by multivariate logistic regression analyses. After applying specified exclusion criteria, an algorithm with maternal and biophysical factors was developed based on 88 twin pregnancies with a preterm birth\u2009&lt;\u200932\u00a0weeks and 639 twin pregnancies with a delivery\u2009\u2265\u200932\u00a0weeks. 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