Economic benefits and costs of human milk feedings: A strategy to reduce the risk of prematurity-related morbidities in very-low-birth-weight infants1-3

Advances in Nutrition

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 207-212

  Johnson, Tricia J ^a   Patel, Aloka L ^b   Bigger, Harold R ^b   Engstrom, Janet L ^a,c   Meier, Paula P ^a,b  

^a Department of Health Systems Management ^*  (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Frontier Nursing University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST MILK; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LUNG DYSPLASIA; MORBIDITY; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PREMATURITY; RETROLENTAL FIBROPLASIA; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

BRONCHOPULMONARY DYSPLASIA; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MILK, HUMAN; MORBIDITY; RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84903584238     PISSN: 21618313     EISSN: 21565376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/an.113.004788     Document Type: Review

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