Developmental care for very low-birth-weight infants

Improvement of Short- and Long-Term Outcomes for Very Low Birth Weight Infants: Edmonton NIDCAP Trial

“…12,15,16,18,20 Criticisms of these studies [21][22][23][24][25] include small sample size, performance before the routine use of surfactant and prenatal corticosteroid therapy, 15,16 and nonrandomized design. 15,17,26,27 The 5 published randomized, controlled trials (RCTs) are summarized in Table 1.…”