Remarks

• Trained health workers can include nurses, midwives, doctors and community health workers.
• The GDG noted that there were limited data on the content, frequency, duration and intensity of home visits for preterm and LBW infants. Based on the trials included in the evidence review, the GDG recommended that extra home visits (i.e. additional to the routine scheduled postnatal contacts for all infants [22]) should be made, and that their content, frequency, duration and intensity should be based on clinical judgement.
• The GDG noted that home visits also increased exclusive breastfeeding, immunization visits and parental–infant attachment and decreased parental stress, though these were not critical outcomes.