A Quality Improvement Project to Increase Breast Milk Use in Very Low Birth Weight Infants

2012135 citationsJournal Article

Authors

Henry Lee · University of California, San Francisco

Paul S. Kurtin · Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego

Nancy Wight · Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women & Newborns

Kathy Chance · California Department of Health Care Services

Tracey Cucinotta-Fobes · Sutter Medical Center

Tara A. Hanson-Timpson · Sharp HealthCare Foundation

Courtney C. Nisbet

Abstract

Implementation of a breast milk/nutrition change package by an 11-site collaborative resulted in an increase in breast milk feeding and decrease in NEC that was sustained over an 18-month period.

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Infant Nutrition and Health Breastfeeding Practices and Influences Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues

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Published in: PEDIATRICS

Volume 130, Issue 6, pp. e1679-e1687

DOI: 10.1542/peds.2012-0547

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