Cost savings of human milk as a strategy to reduce the incidence of necrotizing enterocolitis in very low birth weight infants

Neonatology

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 271-276

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

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b and Family Health Science   (United States)

^c RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost savings; Human milk; Necrotizing enterocolitis; Very low birth weight infants

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST CONTROL; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION COST; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; BIRTH WEIGHT; ECONOMICS; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; HEALTH CARE COST; NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; NEWBORN;

BIRTH WEIGHT; COST SAVINGS; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; MILK, HUMAN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84924690514     PISSN: 16617800     EISSN: 16617819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000370058     Document Type: Article

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