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WHO recommendations for care of the preterm or low-birth-weight infant: web supplement: evidence base
- Allied health
- Apnoea of prematurity
- Breast milk and breastfeeding
- Comfort and nursing care
- CPAP and high flow
- Developmental care and positioning
- Enteral feeding
- Family-integrated care
- Growth
- Infection
- Infection prevention
- Medical
- Nursing
- Nutrition and gastrointestinal
- Postnatal and transitional care
- Respiratory
- Skin care
- Thermoregulation
Summary
This web supplement compiles the GRADE evidence profiles underpinning the 2022 WHO recommendations for care of preterm or low-birth-weight infants. It covers preventive and promotive care, management of complications, and family involvement and support, including kangaroo mother care, mother's own and donor milk, fortification, preterm formula, enteral feeding, micronutrients, probiotics, emollients, CPAP and methylxanthines. For each intervention it reports effect estimates and certainty of evidence for outcomes such as mortality, morbidity, growth, neurodevelopment, breastfeeding and infection. It serves as the technical evidence resource supporting the main guideline.
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