Breastfeeding
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations released
Published in Women's Health Weekly, August 21st, 2003
The new recommendations and the systematic evidence-based review on which the USPSTF statement is based were published in the July/August 2003 issue of Annals of Family Medicine.
The newly published USPSTF guidelines recommend structured breastfeeding education and behavioral counseling programs to improve breastfeeding. In its review, the USPSTF found evidence that intervention programs combining educational classes with behaviorally oriented counseling are associated with...
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