Open AccessCost Savings of Human Milk as a Strategy to Reduce the Incidence of Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Very Low Birth Weight Infants
Author(s) -
Tricia J. Johnson,
Aloka L. Patel,
Harold R. Bigger,
Janet L. Engstrom,
Paula P. Meier
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
neonatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.399
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1661-7819
pISSN - 1661-7800
DOI - 10.1159/000370058
Subject(s) - necrotizing enterocolitis , medicine , low birth weight , incidence (geometry) , pediatrics , birth weight , enterocolitis , intensive care medicine , pregnancy , biology , mathematics , geometry , genetics
Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a costly morbidity in very low birth weight (VLBW; <1,500 g birth weight) infants that increases hospital length of stay and requires expensive treatments.
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