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Change in practice used to quantify breast milk intake of pre-term infants in a neonatal intensive care unit: test-weighing to 'Salt Lake Feed Plan': Author: Treloar, Allison Kirsch; Date: 2009-08-15; Program: Nursing; Abstract: A local community hospital in Montana expressed a desire to establish a written clinical guideline for transitioning preterm infants from enteral gavage feedings to oral feedings. This desire was prompted by a change in the method of quantifying breast milk intake of preterm infants when transitioning them from enteral gavage feedings to at-breast feedings in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). The hospital changed from the practice of test-weighing as a clinical indicator to quantify breast milk intake to the "Salt Lake City Feed Plan". Procedures: Retrospective data from four co...; Download File | View full details