Hospital Admissions in Children with Down Syndrome: Experience of a Population-Based Cohort Followed from Birth

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Fitzgerald, Patrick ^a   Leonard, Helen ^a   Pikora, Terri J ^a   Bourke, Jenny ^a   Hammond, Geoffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN SYNDROME; EAR DISEASE; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEARING DISORDER; HEART DISEASE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MOUTH DISEASE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PATIENT ADMISSION; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881528151     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070401     Document Type: Article

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