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L C Borucki

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PubMed2000

Nipple shields for preterm infants: effect on milk transfer and duration of breastfeeding.

This study reports breastfeeding outcomes for 34 preterm infants whose mothers used ultrathin silicone nipple shields to increase milk transfer. Mean milk transfer was compared for 2 consecutive breastfeedings without and with the nipple shield. Total duration of breastfeeding was calculated for a maximum of 365 days. Mean milk transfer was significantly greater for feedings with the nipple shield (18.4 ml vs. 3.9 ml), with all 34 infants consuming more milk with the nipple shield in place. Mean duration of nipple shield use was 32.5 days, and mean duration of breastfeeding was 169.4 days; no association between these variables was noted. The nipple shield was used for 24.3% of the total breastfeeding experience, with no significant association between the percentage of time the shield was used and total duration of breastfeeding. These findings are the first to indicate that nipple shield use increases milk intake without decreasing total duration of breastfeeding for preterm infants.

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Institutional yield on research: a case study.

This University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing study on the early discharge of very low birthweight infants led to a care model that saves over $18,000 per infant. The benefits to the institution as a whole, however, have been far greater. They include enhanced faculty and student recruitment as well as $700,000 in indirect cost recovery.

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Taking a bite out of CRISP. Strategies on using and conducting searches in the Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects database.

A vast array of information useful to the scientific community is readily available on the internet. Currently, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) offers user access to several large databases, some of which are pertinent to nurses interested in research, health policy formation, and identifying funded research projects. One such database, the Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects (CRISP), provides information on research grants funded by the NIH from 1972 to the present. Retrieval of scientific information for each project in CRISP is made available by project title, grant number, abstract, principal investigator, eight-digit CRISP Thesaurus terms, and key words. This article introduces the reader to CRISP and provides a set of succinct strategies for conducting comprehensive searches in the database.

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