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Received: 16 March 2018

Accepted: 8 October 2018

First Online: 19 October 2018

Authors’ information

: Ecaterina Gincota Bufteac is a medical doctor at Voinicel Early Intervention Centre in Chisinau, Moldova and PhD candidate at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway,Guro L. Andersen is a pediatrician PhD, leader of the Cerebral Palsy Registry of Norway (CPRN) at Vestfold Hospital trust and associate professor at Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway.Vik Torstein is professor of pediatrics at Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway.Reidun Jahnsen is a physical therapist PhD and senior researcher at Oslo University Hospital. She is leader of the national CP surveillance program (CPOP) in Norway.

: The study was approved by the National Committee for Ethical Expertise in Clinical Trials (Nr. 266) and by the Centre of Early Intervention ‘Voinicel’ Ethical Committee (nr. 01/17). A statement of Agreement of Collaboration between the State Medical and Pharmacy University and the Institute of Mother and Child was signed, and finally, permission to conduct the study was obtained from the Ministry of Health (12th of July, nr. 08/88), from the Municipality Council of Social Protection, (13.07.2016, nr. 070117/957) and from the Ministry of Labour, Social Protection and Family of the Republic of Moldova. Permission to access the children’s data was obtained from the Republican Ethics Committee, The State Medical and Pharmacy Ethics Committee, Ministry of Health and Ministry of Labour and Social Protection and the Directors of the Main Hospital for Children in RM- Institute of Mother and Child.

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