Disease surveillance (epidemiology of disease, characteristics/outcomes of patients with disease x) Publications

• Increased risk of morbidities and health-care utilisation in children born following preterm labour compared with full-term labour: A population-based study.Abstract

  AIM: Recent evidence is emerging indicating long-term effects in infants born after an episode of preterm labour (PTL), even if birth is at term. This population-based study compared long-term rates of outcomes and health-care utilisation (HCU) inhildren born following spontaneous preterm labour, irrespective of gestational age at delivery or of an uncomplicated pregnancy (SPTLu), with children born following full-term labour (FTL), overall stratified by comorbidity status and assessed using a composite morbidity measure (CM)

  Houben E, Smits E, Pimenta JM, Black LK, Bezemer ID, Penning-van Beest FJ. J Paediatr Child Health. 2018 Oct 4; 55 446-453.