Neonatal abstinence syndrome: on the evidence to add breastfeeding to any clinical pathway.

Pediatr Crit Care Med

Department of Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Department of Pediatrics, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, Department of Integrative Systems Biology, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, Intensive Care, Erasmus MC-Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and Department of Pediatric Pharmacology, University Children's Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

Published: July 2014

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