Time to send the preemie home? Additional maturity at discharge and subsequent health care costs and outcomes.

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Published in Health Serv Res on December 31, 2008

Authors

Jeffrey H Silber1, Scott A Lorch, Paul R Rosenbaum, Barbara Medoff-Cooper, Susan Bakewell-Sachs, Andrea Millman, Lanyu Mi, Orit Even-Shoshan, Gabriel J Escobar

Author Affiliations

1: Center for Outcomes Research, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. silberj@wharton.upenn.edu

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