Plastic wrap or bag vs usual care: Hypothermia on admission to NICU: core body temperature < 36.5°C or skin temperature < 36°C
Plastic wrap or bag probably leads to lower hypothermia on admission to NICU: core body temperature < 36.5°C or… compared with routine care (moderate certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Plastic wrap or bag vs routine care Hypothermia on admission to NICU: core body temperature < 36.5°C or skin temperature < 36°C · preterm and/or low birth weight infants Plastic wrap or bag probably leads to lower hypothermia on admission to NICU: core body temperature < 36.5°C or… compared with routine care (moderate certainty). Interventions to prevent hypothermia at birth in preterm and/or low birth weight infants (2018) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.67 [0.62, 0.72] | 10 studies · 1417 participants | Moderate |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interventions to prevent hypothermia at birth in preterm and/or low birth weight infants 2018 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | list not extracted yet | Not assessed |
Studies behind the findings
None of these reviews ties its included studies to this outcome in the data here. Cochrane reviews and reviews with headline outcomes only do not list their studies yet.
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.