About the Authors

Kathrin Hanke

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Annika Hartz

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Maike Manz

Affiliation Department of Women’s Health and Obstetrics University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Meike Bendiks

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics at University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Friedhelm Heitmann

Affiliation Children’s Hospital Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

Thorsten Orlikowsky

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Andreas Müller

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Dirk Olbertz

Affiliation Children’s Hospital Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Thomas Kühn

Affiliation Vivantes Children’s Hospital Berlin-Neukölln, Berlin, Germany

Jens Siegel

Affiliation Children’s Hospital Auf der Bult Hanover, Hanover, Germany

Axel von der Wense

Affiliation Children’s Hospital Hamburg-Altona, Hamburg, Germany

Christian Wieg

Affiliation Children’s Hospital Aschaffenburg, Aschaffenburg, Germany

Angela Kribs

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Anja Stein

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Essen, Essen, Germany

Julia Pagel

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Egbert Herting

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Wolfgang Göpel

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Christoph Härtel

christoph.haertel@uksh.de

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

German Neonatal Network (GNN)

Membership of the German Neonatal Network (GNN) is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KH EH WG CH. Performed the experiments: KH EH WG CH. Analyzed the data: KH WG CH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KH AH MM MB FH TO AM DO TK JS AW CW AK AS JP EH WG CH. Wrote the paper: KH MM CH.