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Vitamin K deficiency bleeding

Australia

• National Health and Medical Research Council
  • Vitamin K administration to newborns: Joint statement [2010]

Belgium

• Nutrients
  • Belgian Consensus Recommendations to Prevent Vitamin K Deficiency Bleeding in the Term and Preterm Infant [2021]

Canada

• Canadian Paediatric Society
  • Guidelines for vitamin K prophylaxis in newborns [2018]

Ethiopia

• BMC Pediatrics
  • Prevalence and factors associated with vitamin K prophylaxis utilization among neonates in rural Ethiopia in 2016 [2022]

Europe

• BMC Pediatrics
  • Vitamin K prophylaxis in newborns [2021]

• European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition
  • Prevention of Vitamin K Deficiency Bleeding in Newborn Infants: A Position Paper by the ESPGHAN Committee on Nutrition [2016]

• European Standards of Care for Newborn Health
  • Prevention of vitamin K deficiency bleeding (VKDB) at birth

High-income countries

• Hospital Pediatrics
  • Refusal of Intramuscular Vitamin K by Parents of Newborns: A Review [2020]

Low and middle income countries

• Research and Reports in Neonatology
  • Current perspectives and practices of newborn vitamin K administration in low and middle income countries [2018]

Netherlands

• European Journal of Pediatrics
  • Increasing the dose of oral vitamin K prophylaxis and its effect on bleeding risk [2019]
  • Incidence of late vitamin K deficiency bleeding in newborns in the Netherlands in 2005: evaluation of the current guideline [2008]

New Zealand

• Starship
  • Vitamin K deficiency bleeding and prophylaxis in the newborn [2018]

Romania

• Healthcare
  • Physicians' Opinion and Practice of Vitamin K Administration at Birth in Romania [2022]

Switzerland

• Acta Paediatrica
  • Parental resistance to oral vitamin K prophylaxis was much more common in Swiss birthing centres than private or public hospitals [2021]

United Kingdom

• NHSGGC Guidelines
  • Vitamin K prophylaxis for neonates

United States

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Vitamin K and the Newborn Infant [2022]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Vitamin K Deficiency Bleeding

• HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine
  • The Legal Limits of Parental Autonomy: Do Parents Have the Right to Refuse Intramuscular Vitamin K for Their Newborn? [2023]

• Hospital Pediatrics
  • Oral Vitamin K Prophylaxis in Newborns: A Survey of Clinician Opinions and Practices [2020]

• MedEdPORTAL
  • Pediatric Emergency Medicine Simulation Curriculum: Vitamin K Deficiency in the Newborn [2021]

• Pediatrics
  • Factors Associated With Refusal of Intramuscular Vitamin K in Normal Newborns [2018]

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