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The purpose of this review is to summarize the recent literature relevant to deliveries at extreme prematurity with a focus on outcomes, approaches, and institutional variation.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Recent findings<\/jats:title>\n Newer data suggest that evidence-based clinical guidelines and protocols for both pregnant women and infants at extreme prematurity are emerging and may improve care and outcomes at lower gestational ages. It has also been recently shown that wide practice variation, selection bias, and methodological limitations of outcomes data reporting with respect to deliveries at extreme prematurity exist.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Summary<\/jats:title>\n Counseling at extreme prematurity should prioritize eliciting parental values and preferences with the goal of personalized shared decision-making. Providers should recognize limitations in counseling families at extreme prematurity, including selection bias, institutional variation, outcomes inaccuracies, prognostic uncertainty, and implicit biases. Standardized reporting of perinatal outcomes should be developed to help alleviate current outcomes misrepresentations and improve counseling at extreme prematurity. 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