Factors associated with infant feeding of human milk at discharge from neonatal intensive care: Cross-sectional analysis of nurse survey and infant outcomes data

International Journal of Nursing Studies

Volumn 53, Issue , 2016, Pages 190-203

  Hallowell, Sunny G ^a,d   Rogowski, Jeannette A ^b,d   Spatz, Diane L ^a,e   Hanlon, Alexandra L ^a   Kenny, Michael ^c   Lake, Eileen T ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^b RUTGERS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c VERMONT DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast feeding; Human milk; Infant; Intensive care, Neonatal; Nurse staffing; Nurse work environment; Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index; Very low birth weight

Indexed keywords

BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFANT CARE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; NEWBORN; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

BREAST FEEDING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT CARE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MILK, HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT DISCHARGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84955391823     PISSN: 00207489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2015.09.016     Document Type: Article

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