Associations between gestational age at birth and infection-related hospital admission rates during childhood in England: Population-based record linkage study

• Victoria Coathup ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: victoria.coathup@npeu.ox.ac.uk

  Affiliation National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU), Nuffield Department of Population Health (NDPH), University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0557-6757

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• Claire Carson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU), Nuffield Department of Population Health (NDPH), University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5490-699X

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• Jennifer J. Kurinczuk,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU), Nuffield Department of Population Health (NDPH), University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9554-6337

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• Alison J. Macfarlane,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Health Sciences, University of London, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0977-7214

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• Elaine Boyle,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5038-3148

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• Samantha Johnson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8963-7881

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• Stavros Petrou,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Nuffield Department of Primary Health Care Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3121-6050

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• Maria A. Quigley

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU), Nuffield Department of Population Health (NDPH), University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8058-6181

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