ArticlePediatric quality & safety
An Initiative to Reduce Preterm Infants Pre-discharge Growth Failure Through Time-specific Feeding Volume Increase.
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- Analysis of "true extrauterine growth retardation" and related factors in very preterm infants-A multicenter prospective study in China.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
- Quality Improvement Initiative Enhances Outpatient Pediatric Pulmonology Follow-up for Premature Infants with Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia.Pediatric quality & safetyArticle
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Abstract
Very low birth weight infants often demonstrate poor postnatal longitudinal growth, which negatively impacts survival rates and long-term health outcomes. Improving extrauterine growth restriction (EUGR) among extremely premature infants has become a significant focus of quality improvement initiatives. Prior efforts in the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center neonatal intensive care unit were unsuccessful in improving the EUGR rate at discharge.
methodsThe primary aim of this initiative was to improve EUGR at discharge [defined as weight less than 10th percentile for postmenstrual age (PMA)] for infants born ≤32 0/7 weeks from a baseline of 25% to 20% by June 2019. We excluded all small for gestational age infants due to the limitation in the EUGR definition. A multidisciplinary team implemented evidence-based nutritional guideline changes using the Institute of Healthcare Improvement methods. The most notable change was the time-specific feeding volume advancement that increased the goal feeding volume between 31 0/7 and 34 0/7 weeks PMA from 150-160 to 170-180 milliliters per kilogram per day. The team monitored nutritional intake, weight, necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), and length of stay (LOS).
resultsThe EUGR rate improved from 25% to 12% after initiation of increased time-specific, enteral feeding guidelines at 31-34 weeks PMA. NEC rate, BPD rate, and LOS remained unchanged throughout the initiative.
conclusionsBy implementing a time-specific volume increase guideline from 31 0/7 to 34 0/7 weeks PMA, the EUGR rate improved from baseline of 25% to 12% without increasing NEC rate, BPD rate, and LOS.
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