Impact of birthweight on health-care utilization during early childhood - a birth cohort study

• Main Authors: Mario Rüdiger (Author), Luise Heinrich (Author), Katrin Arnold (Author), Diana Druschke (Author), Jörg Reichert (Author), Jochen Schmitt (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Comprehensive data are needed to evaluate the burden of low birthweight. Analysis of routine data on health-care utilization during early childhood were used to test the hypothesis that infants with low birthweight have (i) increased inpatient health-care utilization, (ii) higher...