Clinical Trial: Health-Related Quality-of-Life and Household Financial and Wellbeing Impacts of Prematurity and Necrotising Enterocolitis (NEC).

U.S., Sept. 26 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07192393) titled 'Health-Related Quality-of-Life and Household Financial and Wellbeing Impacts of Prematurity and Necrotising Enterocolitis (NEC).' on Sept. 09.

Brief Summary: PREM-IMPACT is a UK-based observational study exploring how caring for a very premature baby-particularly one affected by necrotising enterocolitis (NEC)-impacts families over the first year after hospital discharge. NEC is a serious bowel disease that can occur in premature babies, often requiring surgery and prolonged hospitalisation.

This study runs alongside the WHEAT International Trial, which investigates whether pausing or continuing milk feeds during blood transfusion...