Efficacy of early neonatal vitamin A supplementation in reducing mortality during infancy in Ghana, India and Tanzania: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Trials

Volumn 13, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Bahl, Rajiv ^a   Bhandari, Nita ^b   Dube, Brinda ^b   Edmond, Karen ^c   Fawzi, Wafaie ^d   Fontaine, Olivier ^a   Kaur, Jasmine ^b   Kirkwood, Betty R ^c   Martines, Jose ^a   Masanja, Honorati ^e   Mazumder, Sarmila ^b   Msham, Salum ^e   Newton, Sam ^c,f   Oleary, Maureen ^c   Ruben, Julia ^d   Shannon, Caitlin ^c   Smith, Emily ^d   Taneja, Sunita ^b   Yoshida, Sachiyo ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b SOCIETY FOR APPLIED STUDIES   (India)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^f KINTAMPO HEALTH RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Infant mortality; Neonatal; Randomized controlled trial; Vitamin A

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; PLACEBO; RETINOL;

ARTICLE; BIRTH; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEEDING; GHANA; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANCY; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFORMED CONSENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; NEWBORN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAMPLE SIZE; SOCIOECONOMICS; TANZANIA; THERAPY EFFECT; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; AGE; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; GHANA; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; RESEARCH DESIGN; TANZANIA; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITAMIN A;

EID: 84857345900     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-13-22     Document Type: Article

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