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Breastfeeding is considered best practice in early infant feeding, and is recommended by most major health organizations. However, due to the impossibility of directly allocating breastfeeding as a randomized intervention, no direct experimental evidence is available. The PROmotion of Breastfeeding Intervention Trial (PROBIT) was a cluster-randomized trial that sought to evaluate the effect of a hospital program that encouraged and supported breastfeeding, thereby producing indirect evidence of its protective effect on infant infections and hospitalizations.
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Schnitzer, M.E., van der Laan, M.J., Moodie, E.E.M., Platt, R.W. (2018). LTMLE with Clustering. In: Targeted Learning in Data Science. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65304-4_15
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