Vitamin K prophylaxis in newborns

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Table 3 Included manuscripts for revision

Sources	Final selected manuscripts
WHO	• WHO recommendations on newborn health [3] • Pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum and newborn care: a guide for essential practice [4] • Recommendations for management of common childhood conditions: evidence for technical update of pocket book recommendations [5]
USPSTF	None
PrevInfad	• 2010 recommendations and supporting document [6]
NICE	• NICE clinical guideline 2015 – Postnatal care up to 8 weeks after birth [7]
CDC	• Recommendations [8]
AAP	• Policy statement 2003 (reaffirmed in 2020)^a [9, 10]
Cochrane Library	• Ardell 2018 – Prophylactic vitamin K for the prevention of vitamin K deficiency bleeding in preterm neonates (Systematic review) [11] • Puckett 2000 (published before 2010, but supporting evidence used for PrevInfad and WHO recommendations) [12]
Pubmed	• Sankar 2016 (Systematic review) [2] • Martín-López 2011 (Systematic review) [13] • Löwensteyn 2019 (Cohort study) [14] • Witt 2016 (Cohort study) [15] • Mihatsch 2016 (ESPGHAN position paper with review of the literature and recommendations) [16] • Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health 2015 (Review) [17]

Abbreviations: AAP American Academy of Pediatrics; CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; ESPGHAN European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition; NICE National Institute for Health and Care Excellence; PrevInfad PrevInfad workgroup from the Spanish Association of Primary Care Pediatrics; USPSTF US Preventive Services Task Force; WHO World Health Organization
^aThe literature search was conducted on 28th June 2019 but the date of the reaffirmation of the AAP statement was added during the review process of this article

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