A randomized crossover trial comparing the Nifty cup to a medicine cup in preterm infants who have difficulty breastfeeding at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi, Ghana

• Christy M. McKinney ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christy M. McKinney, Patricia S. Coffey

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Division of Craniofacial Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, and Seattle Children’s Hospital Craniofacial Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Gyikua Plange-Rhule,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Daniel Ansong,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Michael L. Cunningham,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Craniofacial Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, and Seattle Children’s Hospital Craniofacial Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2277-654X

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• Irene Agyeman,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Patricia S. Coffey

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christy M. McKinney, Patricia S. Coffey

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: pcoffey@path.org

  Affiliation Devices/Tools Global Program, PATH, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8961-0910

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