Patterns and costs of health-care utilisation in Australian children: The first 5 years

Aim To describe patterns of health‐care utilisation and costs of a cohort of Australian children in the first 5 years of life and to investigate demographic factors associated with high health‐care utilisation. Methods This was a secondary data analysis of prospectively linked health‐care utilisation data, including primary and secondary health‐care consults, hospitalisations and emergency. The subjects were 350 children from a disadvantaged...