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Research Article

Postpartum maternal codeine therapy and the risk of adverse neonatal outcomes: A retrospective cohort study

David N. JuurlinkInstitute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada;Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada;Hospital for Sick Children and Department of Pediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada;Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada;The Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, ON, CanadaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Tara GomesInstitute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada;The Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Astrid GuttmannInstitute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada;Hospital for Sick Children and Department of Pediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada;Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Chelsea HellingsInstitute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Marco L. A. SivilottiDepartments of Emergency Medicine, and Pharmacology & Toxicology, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada
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Marie-Andrée HarveyDepartments of Obstetrics & Gynaecology and of Urology, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada
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Muhammad M. MamdaniInstitute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada;The Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada;Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada;Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada;Department of Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada;Keenan Research Centre of the Li Ka-Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada;College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Pages 390-395 | Received 12 Mar 2011, Accepted 26 Mar 2012, Published online: 27 Apr 2012

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