Effect of breast milk on hospital costs and length of stay among very low-birth-weight infants in the nicu

Advances in Neonatal Care

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 254-259

  Parker, Leslie A ^a   Krueger, Charlene ^a   Sullivan, Sandra ^a   Kelechi, Teresa ^b   Mueller, Martina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast milk; Breastfeeding; Cost of hospitalization; Human milk; Length of hospital stay; Premature infant; VLBW infant

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BREAST MILK; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PREMATURITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

FEMALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; INFANT FORMULA; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MILK, HUMAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84868613623     PISSN: 15360903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ANC.0b013e318260921a     Document Type: Article

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