ReviewThe American journal of clinical nutrition2016
Development of infant oral feeding skills: what do we know?
Review in The American journal of clinical nutrition, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 3 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 79 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
A Cue-based Developmental Approach Toward the Preterm Infants During Feeding Transition Period - Explore Clinical Facts, Evaluate Intervention Effects and Develop Clinical Guideline
Effects on Coordination of Sucking, Swallowing and Breathing Process of a Valved Feeding System in Late-preterm Newborns. The Safe Oral Feeding Trial (SOFT)
Early Evolution of Oral Feeding Skills in Very Preterm Infants: Impact of an Oral Stimulation Program Assessed by Cot-side Suckometer
Who cites it
79 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Pre-Operative Characteristics Helping to Avoid Gastrostomy Tube After Mandibular Distraction in Neonates With Pierre-Robin Sequence: A Institutional Case-Series and Review of the Literature.The Annals of otology, rhinology, and laryngology · 2024Pooled it
- Effects of human milk odor stimulation on feeding in premature infants: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2024Pooled it
- International Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Hyperinsulinism.Hormone research in paediatrics · 2024Guideline
- Pooled it
- Complementary Feeding in Preterm Infants: A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2020Pooled it
- Executive summary: evaluation of the evidence to support practice guidelines for nutritional care of preterm infants-the Pre-B Project.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2016Pooled it
- Working group reports: evaluation of the evidence to support practice guidelines for nutritional care of preterm infants-the Pre-B Project.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2016Pooled it
- Trial
- Effect of Gastric Residual Evaluation on Enteral Intake in Extremely Preterm Infants: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA pediatrics · 2019Trial
- Optimal Timing to Utilize Olfactory Stimulation with Maternal Breast Milk to Improve Oral Feeding Skills in the Premature Newborn.Breastfeeding medicine : the official journal of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine · 2019Trial
- Patterned frequency-modulated oral stimulation in preterm infants: A multicenter randomized controlled trial.PloS one · 2019Trial
- Randomized trial of earlier versus later oral feeding in very premature infants.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2018Trial
- Prenatal Ultrasound Detection and Neonatal Nasogastric Tube Feeding Follow Opposite Gradients Across Orofacial Cleft Phenotypes: A Nationally Ascertained Referral-Centre Cohort Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Early evolution of oral feeding skills in very preterm infants: impact of an oral stimulation protocol assessed by cot-side suckometer: a pilot study.European journal of pediatrics · 2026Article
- Noninvasive acoustic evaluation of oral feeding skills in preterm infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia.Pediatric research · 2026Article
- Predicting the future for neonates with symptomatic congenital heart disease.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2026Article
- Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial of Multisensory Early Oral Administration of Human Milk (M-MILK) for Very Preterm Infants: Enhancing Stress Regulation, Neurodevelopment, and Oral Feeding Skills.Biological research for nursing · 2026Article
- Ultrasonographic evaluation of suprahyoid muscle thickness during the transition to full oral feeding in preterm infants.European journal of pediatrics · 2026Observational
- Feeding difficulties in children with esophageal atresia: A parent-reported multicenter study.Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition · 2026Article
- Feeding Therapy and its Relationship to Timing of Independent Oral Feeding for Preterm Infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.Physical & occupational therapy in pediatrics · 2026Article
19 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
The hospital discharge of premature infants in neonatal intensive care units is often delayed due to their inability to feed by mouth safely and competently. With immature physiologic functions, infants born prematurely cannot be expected to readily feed by mouth at the equivalent age of a third trimester of gestation as the majority of their term counterparts do. Consequently, it is crucial that health care professionals gain an adequate knowledge of the development of preterm infants' oral feeding skills so as to optimize their safety and competency as they transition to oral feeding. With a greater sensitivity toward their immature skills, we can offer these infants a safer and smoother transition to independent oral feeding than is currently observed. This review article is an overview of the evidence-based research undertaken over the past 2 decades on the development of very-low-birth-weight infants' oral feeding skills. The description of the different functional levels where these infants can encounter hurdles may assist caregivers in identifying a potential cause or causes for their individual patients' oral feeding difficulties.
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