... that standardized feeding protocols reduce necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm infants. Successful implementation of a standardized feeding protocol requires multidisciplinary collaboration and tracking of metrics to assess compliance. Introduction Each chapter of this book provides recommendations...

... Service Quality Improvement Scotland (NHS QIS) developed a standard for food, fluid and nutritional care in hospitals (FFNCH). In 2006, a peer review of Scottish health boards was published. The reviewers reported that all Scottish health boards had started to implement the standards, but not across all...

... widely implemented. Countries have adopted and harmonized best practices in child growth assessment, and established the breastfed infant as the norm against which to assess compliance with children’s right to achieve their full genetic growth potential. The assessment of growth in children...

.... Local audit should consider process and outcome measures, and is key to further improving outcomes in preterm infants. Introduction Preterm infants with good nutritional status have better survival and long-term outcomes. NICUs must therefore implement policies, procedures and guidelines...

... will take the strategies of medical discovery implementation, fundamental platform construction, national resource integration, and research group management to progressively establish a national biobank of clinical resources and the national centers of translational medicine. The goal is to thoroughly...

... as driving research and innovation in the areas where we need them. There is a need to better understand the interrelated pieces of the jigsaw that makes up evidence-based dentistry, i.e. the linkages between (a) research and synthesis, (b) dissemination of research results and (c) the implementation...

... improve growth in high-risk infants with significant growth failure. Awareness of the diverse sociocultural-religious issues, and utilizing simple, affordable, sustainable measures are considerations for the successful implementation of quality nutritional care in the developing world. Introduction...