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"Breastfeeding" by feeding expressed mother's milkValerie J Flaherman
Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143 0503, USA
Pediatr Clin North Am 60:227-46. 2013..Approaches for working mothers, preterm infants, critically ill infants, and mothers before lactogenesis II are presented separately, as these groups may benefit from practices tailored to individual needs...
Maternal experience of interactions with providers among mothers with milk supply concernValerie J Flaherman
Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143 0503, USA
Clin Pediatr (Phila) 51:778-84. 2012..Milk supply concern is the most common reason given by mothers for discontinuing breastfeeding. OBJECTIVES. To describe maternal experiences of interactions with health care providers related to milk supply...
Frequency, duration and predictors of bronchiolitis episodes of care among infants ≥32 weeks gestation in a large integrated healthcare system: a retrospective cohort studyValerie J Flaherman
Department of Pediatrics, University of California, 3333 California St, Box 0503, San Francisco, CA 94143 0503, USA
BMC Health Serv Res 12:144. 2012..No previous studies have used an episode-of-care analysis to describe the frequency, duration, and predictors of bronchiolitis episodes of care during the first two years...
Total serum bilirubin exceeding exchange transfusion thresholds in the setting of universal screeningValerie J Flaherman
Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
J Pediatr 160:796-800.e1. 2012..To describe the incidence and predictors of total serum bilirubin (TSB) levels that meet or exceed American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) exchange transfusion (ET) thresholds in the setting of universal screening...
Randomised trial comparing hand expression with breast pumping for mothers of term newborns feeding poorlyValerie J Flaherman
Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, 3333 California Street, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 97:F18-23. 2012..The objective of this study was to compare bilateral electric breast pumping to hand expression among mothers of healthy term infants feeding poorly at 12-36 h after birth...
Breastfeeding rates differ significantly by method used: a cause for concern for public health measurementValerie J Flaherman
Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, 94143 0503, USA
Breastfeed Med 6:31-5. 2011..We compared two commonly used data sources for measuring breastfeeding rates to assess agreement...
First-day newborn weight loss predicts in-hospital weight nadir for breastfeeding infantsValerie J Flaherman
Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, 94143 0503, USA
Breastfeed Med 5:165-8. 2010..The objective of the present study was to evaluate the relationship between weight loss at <24 hours and subsequent in-hospital weight loss > or =10%...
Predicting significant hyperbilirubinaemia using birth weightV J Flaherman
Division of General Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 93:F307-9. 2008..A recent study proposed a risk factor scoring system for prediction of hyperbilirubinaemia that assigned increased risk to infants of higher birth weight...
Estimating severe coccidioidomycosis in CaliforniaValerie J Flaherman
Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143 0503, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 13:1087-90. 2007..67 per 100,000 population. County of residence, older age, black race, male sex, HIV infection, and pregnancy were strongly associated with increased risk for hospitalization...
Cost-effectiveness of alternative strategies for tuberculosis screening before kindergarten entryValerie J Flaherman
Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, 3333 California St, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
Pediatrics 120:90-9. 2007..We undertook a decision analysis to evaluate the economic and health effects and incremental cost-effectiveness of using targeted tuberculin skin testing, compared with universal screening or no screening, before kindergarten...
A meta-analysis of the effect of high weight on asthmaV Flaherman
Department of Family and Community Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143 0503, USA
Arch Dis Child 91:334-9. 2006..Some recent studies have postulated a causal relation between these but have lacked power to form a definitive conclusion...
