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Implementation Of Donor Human Milk In A Newborn Nursery: A Quality Improvement Initiative To Increase Exclusive Breast Milk Feeding, Emily Bombard
Implementation Of Donor Human Milk In A Newborn Nursery: A Quality Improvement Initiative To Increase Exclusive Breast Milk Feeding, Emily Bombard
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Background: At the site of this quality improvement project, exclusive breast milk feeding rates before discharge from a newborn nursery were behind benchmark goals. The aim of this project was to improve exclusive breast milk feeding rates by implementing a Pasteurized Donor Human Milk (PDHM) Program for breastfeeding newborns requiring medically indicated supplementation. The study site was a Level I newborn nursery of a 20-bed, labor, delivery, recovery, and postpartum unit within a 100-bed community hospital (i.e., the agency).
Methods: This retrospective pre-post cohort study used the Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA) framework for rapid cycle change to assess the …