Long term healthcare costs of infants who survived neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis: A retrospective longitudinal study among infants enrolled in Texas Medicaid

BMC Pediatrics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Ganapathy, Vaidyanathan ^a   Hay, Joel W ^a   Kim, Jae H ^b   Lee, Martin L ^c   Rechtman, David J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c Prolacta Bioscience   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH DEFECT; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; PREMATURITY; PROPENSITY SCORE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVOR; UNITED STATES;

BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEDICAID; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84882512390     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-13-127     Document Type: Article

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