A comparison of strategies for managing the umbilical cord at birth in preterm infants

Accepted/In Press date: 13 May 2020

e-pub ahead of print date: 20 May 2020

Published date: 22 September 2020

Additional Information: Funding Information: Organizational support for the Canadian Neonatal Network and the Canadian Preterm Birth Network was provided by the Maternal-infant Care Research Centre (MiCare) at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. MiCare is supported by a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Team Grant ( CTP 87518 ), the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care , and the participating hospitals. PSS holds a CIHR Applied Research Chair in Reproductive and Child Health Services and Policy Research (APR-126340). The funders had no roles in the study design; the collection, analysis, or interpretation of data; the writing of the report; or the decision to submit the article for publication. We confirm the independence of the study researchers from the funders; and we confirm that all authors, external and internal, had full access to all the data in the study and can take responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the analysis. The authors declare no conflicts of interest. We thank all site investigators and data abstractors of the Canadian Neonatal Network (CNN) and the Canadian Preterm Birth Network (CPTBN). We thank Heather McDonald Kinkaid, PhD, from the Maternal-infant Care Research Centre (MiCare) at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, for editorial support in the preparation of this manuscript; and other MiCare staff for organizational support of CNN and CPTBN. MiCare is supported by funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, and the participating hospitals.Organizational support for the Canadian Neonatal Network and the Canadian Preterm Birth Network was provided by the Maternal-infant Care Research Centre (MiCare) at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. MiCare is supported by a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Team Grant (CTP 87518), the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, and the participating hospitals. PSS holds a CIHR Applied Research Chair in Reproductive and Child Health Services and Policy Research (APR-126340). The funders had no roles in the study design; the collection, analysis, or interpretation of data; the writing of the report; or the decision to submit the article for publication. We confirm the independence of the study researchers from the funders; and we confirm that all authors, external and internal, had full access to all the data in the study and can take responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the analysis. The authors declare no conflicts of interest. Funding and disclosure information is available at www.jpeds.com.

Keywords: blood transfusion, delayed cord clamping, early cord clamping, intraventricular hemorrhage, major morbidity, mortality, peak serum bilirubin, short-term outcomes, umbilical cord milking

Local EPrints ID: 485094

URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/485094

DOI: doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2020.05.018

ISSN: 0022-3476

PURE UUID: ccf5830e-6146-4f8f-8624-b0f92572c5eb

ORCID for Jon Dorling: orcid.org/0000-0002-1691-3221

Date deposited: 29 Nov 2023 17:37

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