Hospital use and associated costs of children aged zero-to-two years with craniofacial malformations in Massachusetts

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 85, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 925-934

  Weiss, Judith ^a   Kotelchuck, Milton ^a   Grosse, Scott D ^b   Manning, Susan E ^c   Anderka, Marlene ^c   Wyszynski, Diego F ^d   Cabral, Howard ^a   Barfield, Wanda ^b   Garcia, Raul ^e   Lu, Emily ^c   Higgins, Cathy ^c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d AMGEN INC   (United States)

^e BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Children with special health care needs; Cost analysis; Craniofacial malformations; Health care costs; Health services research

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BIRTH DEFECT; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL UTILIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL FEE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES;

COST OF ILLNESS; FACE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; MASSACHUSETTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL;

EID: 71049187728     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20635     Document Type: Article

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