A quality improvement project to increase breast milk feeding of hospitalized late preterm infants in China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The breastfeeding rates of late preterm infants are lower than both term and extremely preterm infants. To explore the interventions of increasing full breast milk feeding rate of hospitalized late preterm infants on the 7th day after birth (D7) and evaluate the effect of these quality improvement (QI) interventions.

Methods

The full breast milk feeding (amount of enteral breast milk reached 120ml/kg/d on D7) rate of hospitalized late preterm infants during May 2017 and November 2017 was set as the baseline before intervention, and the specific aim of promoting breast milk feeding was put forward. The Pareto Chart was used to analyze the factors that affect breast milk feeding process, as well as the discussion of multidisciplinary experts. Key drivers were constr

SUBMITTER: Quan M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10463707 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature