Early skin contact combined with mother’s breastfeeding to shorten the process of premature infants ≤ 30 weeks of gestation to achieve full oral feeding: the study protocol of a randomized controlled trial
Abstract Background Most hospitalized preterm infants experience difficulties in transitioning from tube feeding to full oral feeding. Interventions to promote full oral feeding in preterm infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) are limited to pacifier use or bottle-feeding exercises. Ski...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2021-09-01
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Series: | Trials |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-021-05605-x |