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Do you want to reduce your hospital's morbidities and associated treatment costs?

Medela: Breastfeeding for professionals

OMM is a high-impact, low-cost intervention to reduce morbidities
in very low birth weight infants (VLBW; < 1,500 g) in
the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).1-5

Increasing OMM intake in the NICU is critical to improving
health outcomes of VLBW infants and lowering healthcare
costs.1-5

Preterm infants fed OMM are less likely to develop:

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Health economic models provide best estimates based on available literature. Medela does not guarantee incidence reductions nor cost savings generated by this model.

References
  1. Johnson TJ et al. Neonatology. 2015; 107(4):271-276.

  2. Patel AL et al. J Perinatol. 2013; 33(7):514-519.

  3. Patel AL et al. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatol Ed. 2017; 102 (3):F256-F261.

  4. Patra K et al. Neonatology. 2017; 112(4),330-336.

  5. Meier P et al. J Pediatr. 2017; 180: 15-21.