ArticlePediatrics2013
Prevalence of use of human milk in US advanced care neonatal units.
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33 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Investigating Milk Fat Globule Structure, Size, and Functionality after Thermal Processing and Homogenization of Human Milk.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Donor human milk: the influence of processing technologies on its nutritional and microbial composition.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Review
- Time to Reach Full Enteral Feeding and Its Predictors among Very Low Birth Weight Neonates Admitted in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Follow-Up Cohort Study.Journal of nutrition and metabolism · 2024Article
- Donor Human Milk Use in Advanced Neonatal Care Units - United States, 2020.MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report · 2022Article
- Structural and functional changes of bioactive proteins in donor human milk treated by vat-pasteurization, retort sterilization, ultra-high-temperature sterilization, freeze-thawing and homogenization.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
- Effect of Various Preterm Infant Milk Formulas on NEC-Like Gut Injury in Mice.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
- Cardiac Performance in the First Year of Age Among Preterm Infants Fed Maternal Breast Milk.JAMA network open · 2021Article
- The mPINC survey: Impacting US maternity care practices.Maternal & child nutrition · 2021Article
- Donor human milk programs in German, Austrian and Swiss neonatal units - findings from an international survey.BMC pediatrics · 2020Article
- Prevalence and predictors of donor milk programs among U.S. advanced neonatal care facilities.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2020Article
- Policy statement of enteral nutrition for preterm and very low birthweight infants.Pediatrics international : official journal of the Japan Pediatric Society · 2020Article
- Disparities in Donor Human Milk Supplementation Among Well Newborns.Journal of human lactation : official journal of International Lactation Consultant Association · 2020Article
- An economic analysis of human milk supplementation for very low birth weight babies in the USA.BMC pediatrics · 2019Review
- NIH workshop on human milk composition: summary and visions.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2019Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
objectiveThe American Academy of Pediatrics recommends all preterm infants receive human milk. The objective of this study was to describe the use of human milk in advanced care neonatal units of US maternity hospitals.
methodsWe used Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's national Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care survey from 2007, 2009, and 2011 to analyze 2 questions to describe the prevalence of US advanced care (special/level 2 or intensive/level 3) neonatal units routinely providing human milk to infants, and the use of any donor milk in these units.
resultsIn 2011, 30.8% of maternity hospitals reported that most infants (≥90%) were routinely provided human milk in advanced care units, compared with 26.7% in 2009 and 21.2% in 2007 (trend P < .001). States in the Northwest and Northeast had a higher prevalence of hospitals routinely providing human milk to ≥90% of infants in advanced care units. In 2011, 22.0% of maternity hospitals providing advanced care used banked donor milk, compared with 14.4% in 2009 and 11.5% in 2007 (trend P < .001). Most of this increase occurred in intensive care units (25.1% 2007 vs 45.2% 2011; trend P < .001). There was substantial geographic variation in the prevalence of advanced care units using donor milk; generally the prevalence was higher in the West and in states with a milk bank in the state or a neighboring state.
conclusionsThe use of human milk in US advanced care neonatal units is increasing; however, only one-third of these units are routinely providing human milk to most infants.
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