Quality improvement initiative to reduce the necrotizing enterocolitis rate in premature infants

Pediatrics

Volumn 137, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Talavera, Maria M ^a   Bixler, Gary ^b   Cozzi, Corin ^c   Dail, James ^d   Miller, Randy R ^c   McClead, Richard ^a,d   Reber, Kristina ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Pediatrix Medical Group of Ohio   (United States)

^c Medical Group of Ohio   (United States)

^d NATIONWIDE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDOMETACIN; RANITIDINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BREAST MILK; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FATALITY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GASTRIC SUCTION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; INTESTINE PERFORATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PNEUMATOSIS INTESTINALIS; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; POLICY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE PRACTICE; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; VOMITING; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; NEWBORN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDOMETHACIN; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MILK, HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RANITIDINE;

EID: 84969761271     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2015-1119     Document Type: Article

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