Hospital costs of multiple-birth and singleton-birth children during the first 5 years of life and the role of assisted reproductive technology

JAMA Pediatrics

Volumn 168, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1045-1053

  Chambers, Georgina M ^a   Van Hoang, Phuong ^a   Lee, Evelyn ^a   Hansen, Michele ^b   Sullivan, Elizabeth A ^c,d   Bower, Carol ^b   Chapman, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST OF REPRODUCTION; DEATH; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HIGHER ORDER MULTIPLE CHILDREN; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFERTILITY THERAPY; LIFE CYCLE; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEWBORN PERIOD; POPULATION; PREMATURE LABOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLETON BIRTH; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; STILLBIRTH; TWINS; AUSTRALIA; ECONOMICS; HOSPITAL; HOSPITALIZATION; LENGTH OF STAY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; UTILIZATION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LENGTH OF STAY; MULTIPLE BIRTH OFFSPRING; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STILLBIRTH; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84909594711     PISSN: 21686203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2014.1357     Document Type: Article

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