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ArticleThe Cochrane database of systematic reviews2024

Multisensory stimulation for promoting development and preventing morbidity in preterm infants.

Katarzyna Wróblewska-Seniuk, Mikaela Lenells, Marcus Glenton Prescott, Michelle Fiander, Roger Soll, Matteo Bruschettini

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Article in The Cochrane database of systematic reviews, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  4. The Role and Ethics of Touch and Non-touch in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Katarzyna Wróblewska-SeniukII Department of Neonatology, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland.
Mikaela LenellsWomen and Children's Health, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
Marcus Glenton PrescottSt. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim, Norway.
Michelle FianderCochrane Neonatal Group, Halifax, Canada.
Roger SollDivision of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA.
Matteo BruschettiniCochrane Sweden, Department of Research and Education, Lund University, Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesThis is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (intervention). The objectives are as follows: To assess the benefits and harms of multisensory stimulation compared to any single sensory intervention or standard care for physical and neurological development in preterm infants.

Indexed as

Child DevelopmentInfant, PrematureHumansInfant, NewbornPhysical StimulationRandomized Controlled Trials as Topic

Identifiers

PMID38989978
PMCPMC11238622

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