The impact of a multifaceted quality improvement program on the incidence of necrotizing enterocolitis in very low birth weight infants

• Main Authors: Tetyana H. Nesterenko (Author), Nita Baliga (Author), Sarah Swaintek (Author), Dinan Abdelatif (Author), Hany Aly (Author), Mohamed A. Mohamed (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2022-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a multifactorial gastrointestinal disease which mostly occurs in very low birth weight (VLBW) infants. In addition to decreasing gestational age (GA) or birth weight (BW), artificial formula, delayed initiation or rapidly advanced feeding, severe anemia...