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Breast-Fed Low Birth Weight Premature Infants: A Description Of Nutritional Intake In The First Six Months Of Life, Ksenia Zukowsky
Breast-Fed Low Birth Weight Premature Infants: A Description Of Nutritional Intake In The First Six Months Of Life, Ksenia Zukowsky
Selected Works of Ksenia Zukowsky, CRNP, PhD
This is a secondary analysis of a larger project entitled "Breast-feeding Services for LBW Infants-Outcomes and Costs" (L. Brown, RN, Ph.D., Principal Investigator), funded by NINR at NIH, (NR 03881). The larger project was a randomized clinical trial, of women planning to breast-feed their LBW infant. The control group received routine breast-feeding care and an intervention group received a structured program of breast-feeding services provided by an advanced practice nurse.
Healthy premature LBW infants from the control group were selected as subjects for this secondary analysis. One question of this secondary analysis was to describe the nutrition of healthy premature …