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Optimising kangaroo care to reduce neonatal severe infection/sepsis and resistant bacterial colonisation among high-risk infants in neonatal intensive care: study protocol for a pragmatic, multicentre, parallel cluster randomised hybrid implementation-effectiveness trial (NeoDeco)
2026-05-21
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<title>Abstract</title> <p> <bold>Background</bold> : Hospital-acquired infections are a leading cause of mortality and morbidity in preterm infants in neonatal intensive care, and antibiotic resistance further increases this burden. While kangaroo care reduces neonatal mortality and sepsis in low- and middle-income countries, no randomised controlled trial has evaluated its effects on hospital-acquired infecti...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 75494827-4147-58aa-acee-b092c1ed1a47
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-9150066/v1
