TY - JOUR T1 - Supporting ‘Baby Friendly’: a quality improvement initiative for the management of transitional neonatal hypoglycaemia JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition JO - Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed SP - F344 LP - F347 DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2015-308950 VL - 101 IS - 4 AU - Claire Elizabeth Stewart AU - Emma Louise Maitland Sage AU - Peter Reynolds Y1 - 2016/07/01 UR - http://fn.bmj.com/content/101/4/F344.abstract N2 - 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. ER -