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SEMINARS IN PERINATOLOGY
Volume 41, Issue 3, Pages 175-186Publisher
W B SAUNDERS CO-ELSEVIER INC
DOI: 10.1053/j.semperi.2017.03.007
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Human milk; Quality improvement; Neonatal intensive care unit; Preterm; Early initiation
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This review will provide an overview of quality improvement methods that have been used to improve human milk use (mother's own milk and donor milk) for very low-birth-weight infants in the hospital setting in the last decade. We will review the following: (1) evidence based practices known to increase mother's own milk for very low-birth-weight infants; (2) individual hospitals with exemplary lactation programs and past and current US-based statewide quality improvement collaboratives focused on increasing mother's own milk; and (3) existing quality metrics for human milk and gaps in metrics. Finally, we will provide practical examples of key driver diagrams and change concepts that may be used to inform quality improvement for mother's own milk for very low-birth-weight infants. (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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