Scoping review of evidence for managing postnatal hypoglycaemia.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To identify what is known empirically about the screening, treatment and harm of exposure to neonatal hypoglycaemia.

Design

Scoping review that applied a preregistered protocol based on established frameworks.

Data sources

Medline and Embase, up to 12 May 2020.

Study selection

Comparative and case-series studies, as well as guidelines, published in English or French, on the topic of immediate inpatient postnatal glucose screening in newborns.

Data gathering

Article selection and characterisation were performed in duplicate using predefined data extraction forms specific to primary studies and guidelines.

Results

12 guidelines and 74 primary studies were included. A neurodevelopmental outcome was primary in 32 studies: 30 observational s

SUBMITTER: Horwitz J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8830267 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature