SynthesisThe American journal of clinical nutrition2016
Monitoring postnatal growth of preterm infants: present and future.
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- 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
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- Biological and environmental contributions to the growth rates of preterm children aged 0-2 years: a birth cohort study.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Development and Evaluation of an Evidence-Based Management Indicator System for Transitional Care in Preterm Infants Using a Delphi and AHP Approach.Journal of nursing management · 2026Article
- Integrated growth assessment in the first 1000 d of life: an interdisciplinary conceptual framework.Public health nutrition · 2023Review
- ASSESSMENT OF NEONATAL CARE STANDARD BY THE PREDICTIVE MODEL FOR RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY BASED ON WEIGHT GAIN.Acta clinica Croatica · 2023Article
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- Growth of a cohort of very low birth weight and preterm infants born at a single tertiary health care center in South Africa.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
- Differences in Postnatal Growth of Preterm Infants in Northern China Compared to the INTERGROWTH-21st Preterm Postnatal Growth Standards: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
- Neuropsychological Development and New Criteria for Extrauterine Growth Restriction in Very Low-Birth-Weight Children.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Fenton vs. Intergrowth-21st: Postnatal Growth Assessment and Prediction of Neurodevelopment in Preterm Infants.Nutrients · 2021Article
- Are small-for-gestational-age preterm infants at increased risk of overweight? Statistical pitfalls in overadjusting for body size measures.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2021Article
- Variation in Neonatal Nutrition Practice and Implications: A Survey of Australia and New Zealand Neonatal Units.Frontiers in nutrition · 2021Article
- Comparison of Postnatal Growth Charts of Singleton Preterm and Term Infants Using World Health Organization Standards at 40-160 Weeks Postmenstrual Age: A Chinese Single-Center Retrospective Cohort Study.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2021Article
- Growth patterns over 2 years after birth according to birth weight and length percentiles in children born preterm.Annals of pediatric endocrinology & metabolism · 2020Article
- Modelling predictive gender- and gestation-specific weight reference centiles for preterm infants using a population-based cohort study.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Long-term effects on growth of an energy-enhanced parenteral nutrition in preterm newborn: A quasi-experimental study.PloS one · 2020Article
- Applying Methods for Postnatal Growth Assessment in the Clinical Setting: Evaluation in a Longitudinal Cohort of Very Preterm Infants.Nutrients · 2019Article
- Growth of preterm infants at the time of global obesity.Archives of disease in childhood · 2019Article
- Postnatal length and weight growth velocities according to Fenton reference and their associated perinatal factors in healthy late preterm infants during birth to term-corrected age: an observational study.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2019Observational
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Abstract
backgroundThere is no consensus with regard to which charts are most suitable for monitoring the postnatal growth of preterm infants.
objectiveWe aimed to assess the strategies used to develop existing postnatal growth charts for preterm infants and their methodologic quality.
designA systematic review of observational longitudinal studies, having as their primary objective the creation of postnatal growth charts for preterm infants, was conducted. Thirty-eight items distributed in 3 methodologic domains ("study design," "statistical methods," and "reporting methods") were assessed in each study. Each item was scored as a "low" or "high" risk of bias. Two reviewers independently selected the studies, assessed the risk of bias, and extracted data. A total quality score [(number of "low risk" of bias marks/total number of items assessed) × 100%] was calculated for each study. Median (range, IQR) quality scores for each methodologic domain and for all included studies were computed.
resultsSixty-one studies met the inclusion criteria. Twenty-seven (44.3%) of the 61 studies scored ≥50%, of which 10 scored >60% and only 1 scored >66%. The median (range, IQR) quality score for the 61 included studies was 47% (26-75%, 34-56%). The scores for the domains study design, statistical methods, and reporting methods were 44% (19-67%, 33-52%), 25% (0-88%, 13-38%), and 33% (0-100%, 0-33%), respectively. The most common shortcomings were observed in items related to anthropometric measures (the main variable of interest), gestational age estimation, follow-up duration, reporting of postnatal care and morbidities, assessment of outliers, covariates, and chart presentation.
conclusionsThe overall methodologic quality of existing longitudinal studies was fair to low. To overcome these problems, the Preterm Postnatal Follow-up Study, 1 of the 3 main components of The International Fetal and Newborn Growth Consortium for the 21st Century Project, was designed to construct preterm postnatal growth standards from a prospective cohort of "healthy" pregnancies and preterm newborns without evidence of fetal growth restriction.
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