Breastfeeding outpatient in primary care as an important action to promote breastfeeding: experience report.
Camila Dantas Martins, Carine Vieira Bicalho, Renata Maria Moreira Furlan, Amélia Augusta de Lima Friche, Andréa Rodrigues Motta
PMID 38808855WHAT IT FOUND
This paper describes how a community health center in Brazil set up a breastfeeding clinic run by a speech-language pathologist.
It reports the service structure and the problems mothers brought in, such as pain and latch issues, but provides no evidence that the intervention changed breastfeeding outcomes compared to standard care.
What this paper is
This is an experience report describing the implementation of a breastfeeding outpatient clinic in a Brazilian primary care center. It details the service structure, the professionals involved, and the types of difficulties mothers reported, but it does not present a controlled study, a comparison group, or statistical analysis of outcomes. There are no findings here to act on regarding treatment efficacy.
The easy way to misread this
Do not interpret the reported improvement in clinic indicators or the description of the service as evidence that this specific model causes better breastfeeding outcomes. The paper is a descriptive report of a service launch, not a trial testing an intervention against a control group.