TY - JOUR
T1 - A transition strategy for becoming a Baby-Friendly Hospital
T2 - Exploring the costs, benefits, and challenges
AU - Dellifraine, Jami
AU - Langabeer, James
AU - Delgado, Rigoberto
AU - Williams, Janet F.
AU - Gong, Alice
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2013 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2013/4/1
Y1 - 2013/4/1
N2 - The objectives of this study were to provide an economic assessment as well as a calculated projection of the costs that typical U.S. tertiary-care hospitals would incur through policy reconfiguration and implementation to achieve the UNICEF/World Health Organization Baby-Friendly® Hospital designation and to examine the associated challenges and benefits of becoming a Baby-Friendly Hospital. We analyzed hospital resource utilization, focusing on formula use and staffing profiles at one U.S. urban tertiary-care teaching hospital, as well as conducted an online survey and telephone interviews with a selection of Baby-Friendly Hospitals to obtain their perspective on costs, challenges, and benefits. Findings indicate that added costs for a new Baby-Friendly Hospital will approximate $148 per birth, but these costs sharply decrease over time as breastfeeding rates increase in a Baby-Friendly environment.
AB - The objectives of this study were to provide an economic assessment as well as a calculated projection of the costs that typical U.S. tertiary-care hospitals would incur through policy reconfiguration and implementation to achieve the UNICEF/World Health Organization Baby-Friendly® Hospital designation and to examine the associated challenges and benefits of becoming a Baby-Friendly Hospital. We analyzed hospital resource utilization, focusing on formula use and staffing profiles at one U.S. urban tertiary-care teaching hospital, as well as conducted an online survey and telephone interviews with a selection of Baby-Friendly Hospitals to obtain their perspective on costs, challenges, and benefits. Findings indicate that added costs for a new Baby-Friendly Hospital will approximate $148 per birth, but these costs sharply decrease over time as breastfeeding rates increase in a Baby-Friendly environment.
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U2 - 10.1089/bfm.2012.0050
DO - 10.1089/bfm.2012.0050
M3 - Article
C2 - 23249129
AN - SCOPUS:84876112493
SN - 1556-8253
VL - 8
SP - 170
EP - 175
JO - Breastfeeding Medicine
JF - Breastfeeding Medicine
IS - 2
ER -