German Pharmacoepidemiological Research Database

20% of the German population (not restricted to people insured by statutory health insurances).

While GePaRD captures preterm and term newborn infants with 0-27 days of age in our database (as indicated in question 19), it is not possible to evaluate the population of babies based on age in days because the exact date of birth is not available in our database (only the year of birth). However, due to the possibility of linking the majority of mothers and their pregnancies to babies, the data source can distinguish babies at the age of 0 who were term-births and or pre-term, and confirm that it captures babies within the age-range of 0-27 days in the database. Over all years, there are 1140417 term-births and 96438 pre-termbirths in GePaRD. For 80% of these births there is information on the respective baby in GePaRD.