Hospital admissions in children with cerebral palsy: a data linkage study

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Funding Acknowledgements

We acknowledge the funders of the VCPR, the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services, and the Victorian Medical Insurance Agency, as well as infrastructure support provided by the Victorian Government's Operational Infrastructure Support Program. We also acknowledge the VAED data custodian, and are grateful to the Victorian Data Linkages Unit for their assistance, particularly Ms Ying Chen for her guidance and advice in relation to this project. In addition, we acknowledge the Victorian Paediatric Clinical Network, particularly Ms Juliette Begg, for their endorsement and support of this work. We also thank Ms Maria Lambers for her valuable assistance in the early stages of this project. The first author acknowledges PhD funding support from Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and the University of Melbourne. The authors have stated that they had no interests which may be perceived as posing a conflict or bias.