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We sought to determine whether the variability in pathologists' scoring of neutrophil infiltrates in the placenta could be reduced by the use of \u2018regions of interest\u2019 (ROIs) that break the sample into smaller components.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Design<\/jats:title><jats:p>ROIs were identified within stained H&amp;E slides from a cohort of 56 women. ROIs were scored using a semiquantitative scale (0\u20134) for the average number of neutrophils by at least two independent raters.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Setting<\/jats:title><jats:p>Preterm singleton births at Yale New Haven Hospital.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Participants<\/jats:title><jats:p>This study used stained H&amp;E placental slides from a cohort of 56 women with singleton pregnancies who had a clinically indicated amniocentesis within 24\u2005hours of delivery.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Primary and secondary outcome measures<\/jats:title><jats:p>Interrater agreement was assessed with the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) and log-linear regression. 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