Disparities in Hospital-Reported Breast Milk Use in Neonatal Intensive Care Units - United States, 2015

Data from the 2015 Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care (mPINC) survey, linked with postal code-level race data from the U.S. Census, found that hospitals in areas with higher percentages of black residents reported lower percentages of infants in the NICU routinely receiving mother ' s own breast milk or banked donor breast milk than did hospitals in areas with lower percentages of black residents.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6648a1.htm?s_cid=mm6648a1_e

Source: HSR Information Central - December 7, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news