TY - JOUR T1 - Review finds that bed sharing increases risk of sudden infant death syndrome JF - Evidence Based Nursing JO - Evid Based Nurs SP - 115 LP - 116 DO - 10.1136/ebnurs-2012-100750 VL - 15 IS - 4 AU - Sarah J M Shaefer Y1 - 2012/10/01 UR - http://ebn.bmj.com/content/15/4/115.abstract N2 - Commentary on: Vennemann MM, Hense HW, Bajanowski T, et al. Bed sharing and the risk of sudden infant death syndrome: can we resolve the debate? J Pediatr 2012;160:44–8.e2.OpenUrlCrossRefPubMedWeb of Science Practitioners should inform parents of higher sudden infant death syndrome risk because of bed sharing, especially for smokers and very young infants.Parents should be encouraged to share a room with an infant, not a bed.Additional case control studies are needed on all aspects of bed sharing.Future research should explore parental decision making for sleep location and position. Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) remains the leading cause of infant mortality in USA and most developed countries. After studies in the late 1980s and early 1990s which identified the prone sleep position as a main risk for SIDS, campaigns to promote back sleeping were initiated, and the number of SIDS declined significantly.1 However, … ER -