Systematic review confirmed the benefits of early skin‐to‐skin contact but highlighted lack of studies on very and extremely preterm infants

Gupta et al. (Tue,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d6ce12639f29d8dcab349c — DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/apa.15913

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