Clinician perspectives on barriers to and opportunities for skin-to-skin contact for premature infants in neonatal intensive care units

Breastfeeding Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 79-84

  Lee, Henry Chong ^a   Martin Anderson, Sarah ^b   Dudley, R Adams ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST FEEDING; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FAMILY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; INFANT; KANGAROO CARE; MOTIVATION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REVIEW; SKIN;

BREAST FEEDING; EDUCATION; EDUCATION, NURSING, CONTINUING; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; MOTIVATION; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TOUCH;

EID: 84859606484     PISSN: 15568253     EISSN: 15568342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/bfm.2011.0004     Document Type: Review

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