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The effect of maternity practices on exclusive breastfeeding rates in U.S. hospitals.
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- Longitudinal Association of Maternity Care Practices with Exclusive Breastfeeding in U.S. Hospitals, 2018-2022.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Hospital Breastfeeding Support during the Early Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic: Worsening Care for Black, Hispanic, and Asian Mothers.Maternal and child health journal · 2025Article
- Perceived barriers and facilitators to breast-feeding support practices in hospitals and birthing facilities in the USA.Public health nutrition · 2025Article
- A dose-response relationship found between the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding indicators and in-hospital exclusive breastfeeding in US hospitals.Birth (Berkeley, Calif.) · 2023Article
- Rescinding evidence-based care and practices during the initial COVID-19 outbreak in the United States: a qualitative study of the experiences of lactation support providers.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- How to Improve the Care of Women after Childbirth in the Rooming-in Unit: A Prospective Observational Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Observational
- Maternity ward staff perceptions of exclusive breastfeeding in Finnish maternity hospitals: A cross-sectional study.European journal of midwifery · 2021Article
- The mPINC survey: Impacting US maternity care practices.Maternal & child nutrition · 2021Article
- Association between early essential newborn care and breastfeeding outcomes in eight countries in Asia and the Pacific: a cross-sectional observational -study.BMJ global health · 2020Observational
- Overcoming Rooming-In Barriers: A Survey on Mothers' Perspectives.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2020Article
- The effect of maternity practices on exclusive breastfeeding rates in U.S. hospitals.Maternal & child nutrition · 2019Article
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Abstract
The Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) includes a set of 10 evidenced-based maternity practices that when used together have been shown to improve breastfeeding outcomes. In 2007, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched the Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care (mPINC) survey to assess and monitor these and other evidenced-based maternity practices. The purpose of this study was to explore individual maternity practices measured in the 2013 mPINC survey, along with hospital demographic information, and their relationships with exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) rates, using a sample of United States (U.S.) hospitals. We obtained mPINC survey data from 69 BFHI hospitals and 654 non-BFHI hospitals in the U.S., and EBF rates from The Joint Commission, a leading hospital accreditation agency. On the basis of linear regression analysis, we found that most maternity practices studied were significantly associated with EBF rates (max adjusted R
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