Oropharyngeal administration of mother's colostrum, health outcomes of premature infants: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Trials

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Rodriguez, Nancy A ^a,b   Vento, Maximo ^c   Claud, Erika C ^b   Wang, Chihsiung E ^a   Caplan, Michael S ^a,b  

^a NORTHSHORE UNIVERSITY HEALTHSYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE LA FE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Breast milk; Colostrum; Extremely low birth weight; Human milk; Mother's milk; Oral care; Oral immune; Oral immune therapy; Oropharyngeal; Premature; Very low birth weight

Indexed keywords

LACTOFERRIN;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL FEEDING; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BREAST MILK; CHILD DEATH; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COLOSTRUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT FEEDING; INTESTINE FLORA; LACTOBACILLUS; LATE ONSET SEPSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NONHUMAN; ORAL BIOPSY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PREMATURITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SEPSIS; THERAPY EFFECT; URINALYSIS; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; ENTERIC FEEDING; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT NUTRITION; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR; TIME FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

BIRTH WEIGHT; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; COLOSTRUM; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ENTERAL NUTRITION; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; INFANT, EXTREMELY PREMATURE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84944059336     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13063-015-0969-6     Document Type: Article

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