A Quality Improvement Initiative to Increase Mother's Own Milk Use in a Chinese Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Breastfeeding Medicine2020Vol. 15(4), pp. 261–267
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Abstract
Background: To evaluate the efficacy of a multidisciplinary quality improvement intervention to promote mother's own milk feeding and reduce necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) in very low-birth-weight infants. Materials and Methods: We conducted a pre (January 2014 to March 2015)-post (April 2015 to June 2016), nonrandomized, interventional cohort study of infants born at Results: A total of 488 infants (210 baseline, 278 intervention) p p Conclusions: Our quality improvement initiative increased the consumption of mother's own milk and reduced the severity of NEC in very low-birth-weight infants.
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