Background: Before hospital discharge, newborn infants should be assessed for the risk of excessive hyperbilirubinemia. We determined maternal and obstetric risk factors for hyperbilirubinemia in infants born at term (gestational age ≥37 weeks) to form an individualized risk assessment tool for clinical use.
Methods: This was a population-based study with data from the Swedish Medical Birth Register from 1999 to 2012, including 1,261,948 singleton infants.