Gestational Age at Delivery and Special Educational Need: Retrospective Cohort Study of 407,503 Schoolchildren

A retrospective cohort study of 407,503 schoolchildren by Jill Pell and colleagues finds that gestational age at delivery has a dose-dependent relationship with the risk of special educational needs that extends across the full gestational range.

• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  PLoS Medicine

• Publication date

  2010-06-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Education

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  DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000289PMID 20543995PMCID 2882432
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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