dc.contributor.author | Williams, Lesley Alison | |
dc.contributor.author | Ware, Robert S | |
dc.contributor.author | Davies, Peter SW | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-11-16T04:07:02Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-11-16T04:07:02Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1034-4810 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/jpc.12824 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/172269 | |
dc.description.abstract | Aim: Infant feeding can be the reason for presentation and/or admission to hospital. The aim of this study was to identify if infant feeding history was documented in charts of infants presenting and/or admitted to a paediatric hospital.
Methods: A systematic random sample of hospital charts of infants who had presented to the emergency department between 1 July 2011 and 30 June 2012 was audited for presence of documentation of feeding.
Results: In total, 465 charts were audited, representing 12.5% of infants who presented to the emergency department in the year. Frequency of documentation for feeding measures was as follows: feeding mode, 263 (57%); feeding type, 228 (49%); feeding frequency, 119 (26%); and with changes 89 (19%) since birth. Increasing infant age was significantly associated with less frequent recording of feeding mode, type, frequency and changes.
Conclusion: A comprehensive feeding history is not recorded on many occasions of infant presentation and/or admission to hospital. The recording of feeding mode, type, frequency and changes is needed in order to explore the existence, or otherwise, of a relationship between feeding and the reason for presentation and/or admission. | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing | |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | 708 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpageto | 712 | |
dc.relation.ispartofissue | 7 | |
dc.relation.ispartofjournal | Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health | |
dc.relation.ispartofvolume | 51 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Clinical sciences | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Reproductive medicine not elsewhere classified | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 3202 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 321599 | |
dc.title | Hospital, infants and feeding: The importance of audit | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.type.description | C1 - Articles | |
dc.type.code | C - Journal Articles | |
gro.hasfulltext | No Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Ware, Robert | |