Hospitalizations and associated costs in a population-based study of children with down syndrome born in Florida

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 100, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 826-836

  Dawson, April L ^a   Cassell, Cynthia H ^a   Oster, Matthew E ^a   Olney, Richard S ^a   Tanner, Jean Paul ^b   Kirby, Russell S ^b   Correia, Jane ^c   Grosse, Scott D ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER ON BIRTH DEFECTS AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth defects surveillance; Congenital heart defect; Cost, hospital; Down syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POPULATION RESEARCH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; YOUNG ADULT; COMPLICATION; ECONOMICS; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; INFANT; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REGISTER; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84911982481     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.23295     Document Type: Article

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