| Trial name or title |
Effect of infant placement on iron stores in infancy: a pilot study. |
| Methods |
Type of study: single centre randomised trial, single‐blind.
Method of treatment allocation: parallel assignment, stratification not stated.
Placebo: no.
Sample size: not stated.
Funding: not stated. |
| Participants |
Included: infants born vaginally, 37 to 42 weeks' gestational age.
Excluded: mothers with diabetes and hypertension, infants that are growth restricted. |
| Interventions |
Infant held at perineal level.
Infant held at abdominal level. |
| Outcomes |
Primary: infant serum ferritin at 4 months.
Secondary: infant haemoglobin, hematocrit and serum ferritin at 2 months, haemoglobin and hematocrit at 24 hours. |
| Starting date |
June 2008. |
| Contact information |
James Davison, Warren General Hospital, USA. |
| Notes |
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