ReviewJournal of education and health promotion2019
Effect of Kangaroo Mother Care on hospital management indicators: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.
Review in Journal of education and health promotion, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Kangaroo Mother Care Is Beneficial for Both Infants and Parents: An Umbrella Review.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2026Pooled it
- Outcome Reporting in Clinical Trials on Kangaroo Mother Care in Newborns: A Systematic Review for the Development of Core Outcome Set.Journal of nursing management · 2025Pooled it
- Knowledge, attitude and practice towards kangaroo mother care among postnatal women in Ethiopia: Systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2022Pooled it
- The Characteristics and Results of Parent Training Interventions in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review.Iranian journal of public health · 2022Review
- Quality of Life of People with HIV/AIDS in Iran: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Iranian journal of public health · 2020Review
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Abstract
Results of previous studies about the effect of Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) on hospital management indicators (HMIs) (length of stay [LOS], readmission to hospital, parent satisfaction, and parent's preference for same postdelivery care) had high confusions. The aim of this study was to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials on the effect of KMC on HMI in comparison with the conventional neonatal care (CNC). In this systematic review and meta-analysis study, required data were collected by searching the following keywords: "length of stay," "readmission to hospital," satisfaction," same post-delivery," "hospital management," indicators, "skin-to-skin," "Kangaroo Mother Care," randomized trial. The following databases were searched: Google Scholar, PubMed, EMBASE, Scopus, and Cochrane. To estimate the hospital management indicators, computer software Comprehensive Meta-Analysis 2 was used. Finally, 18 articles were included to analysis. The overall LOS standard different between groups (KMC vs. CNC) was - 0.91 days (95% confidence interval [CI], -2.14-0.32,
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