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dc.contributor.authorWilliams, Lesley Alison
dc.contributor.authorWare, Robert S
dc.contributor.authorDavies, Peter SW
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-16T04:07:02Z
dc.date.available2017-11-16T04:07:02Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.issn1034-4810
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/jpc.12824
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/172269
dc.description.abstractAim: 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.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherWiley-Blackwell Publishing
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom708
dc.relation.ispartofpageto712
dc.relation.ispartofissue7
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Paediatrics and Child Health
dc.relation.ispartofvolume51
dc.subject.fieldofresearchClinical sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchReproductive medicine not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3202
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode321599
dc.titleHospital, infants and feeding: The importance of audit
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorWare, Robert


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