Hospital length of stay among children with and without congenital anomalies across 11 European regions—A population-based data linkage study

Stine Kjaer Urhoj, Joachim Tan, Joan K Morris, Joanne Given, Gianni Astolfi, Silvia Baldacci, Ingeborg Barisic, Joanna Brigden, Clara Cavero-Carbonell, Hannah Evans, Mika Gissler, Anna Heino, Sue Jordan, Renée Lutke, Ljubica Odak, Aurora Puccini, Michele Santoro, Ieuan Scanlon, Hermien E K de Walle, Diana Wellesley, Óscar Zurriaga, Maria Loane and Ester Garne

PLOS ONE, 2022, vol. 17, issue 7, 1-17

Abstract: Background: Congenital anomalies are a leading cause of childhood morbidity, but little is known about the long-term outcomes. Objective: To quantify the burden of disease in childhood for children with congenital anomalies by assessing the risk of hospitalisation, the number of days spent in hospital and proportion of children with extended stays (≥10 days). Methods: European population-based record-linkage study in 11 regions in eight countries including children with congenital anomalies (EUROCAT children) and without congenital anomalies (reference children) living in the same regions. The children were born between 1995 and 2014 and were followed to their tenth birthday or 31/12/2015. European meta-analyses of the outcome measures were performed by two age groups,

Date: 2022
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