The presence of physician champions improved Kangaroo Mother Care in rural western India.

Apurv SoniAmee AminDipen V PatelNisha FaheyNikhil ShahAjay G PhatakJeroan AllisonSomashekhar Marutirao Nimbalkar

Published in: Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) (2016)

Withdrawing physician champions from the NICU setting was associated with a decline in skin-to-skin care, but not breastfeeding. Training health care workers and community stakeholders to become champions could help to scale up and maintain KMC practices.

Keyphrases

healthcare
primary care
palliative care
emergency department
preterm infants
south africa
quality improvement
soft tissue
wound healing
mental health
pain management
chronic pain