The Incubator
The Incubator
Ben Courchia & Daphna Yasova Barbeau
#466 - [Journal Club] - 📌 Oral isn't IM: Sweden's vitamin K data in two million infants
23 minutes Posted Sep 15, 2026 at 12:00 pm.
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Send us Fan Mail Is the newborn vitamin K shot really being skipped more often these days, and does that actually matter clinically? This week on Journal Club, Ben and Daphna review a nationwide Swedish cohort study of over two million births, published in JAMA Pediatrics, examining trends in non-receipt of intramuscular vitamin K and its link to bleeding in infancy. Non-receipt nearly doubled between 2006 and 2021, and infants without intramuscular vitamin K had significantly higher odds of ...