PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Claire Elizabeth Stewart
AU  - Emma Louise Maitland Sage
AU  - Peter Reynolds
TI  - Supporting ‘Baby Friendly’: a quality improvement initiative for the management of transitional neonatal hypoglycaemia
AID  - 10.1136/archdischild-2015-308950
DP  - 2016 Jul 01
TA  - Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition
PG  - F344--F347
VI  - 101
IP  - 4
4099  - http://fn.bmj.com/content/101/4/F344.short
4100  - http://fn.bmj.com/content/101/4/F344.full
SO  - Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed2016 Jul 01; 101
AB  - We describe a quality improvement initiative conducted in a medium-sized district general hospital with a neonatal intensive care unit, which involved working with the multidisciplinary team to create a ‘Baby Friendly’ neonatal hypoglycaemia pathway with implementation of dextrose gel as a first-line treatment. As a result of the project, formula supplementation rates and admissions for transitional hypoglycaemia were reduced and breastfeeding rates at 3 months improved. This initiative demonstrates that evidence-based guidelines with multidisciplinary team input can improve standards of care.