Evidence · Research paper
Nutrition practice, compliance to guidelines and postnatal growth in moderately premature babies: the NUTRIQUAL French survey.
- Allied health
- Enteral feeding
- Growth
- Medical
- Nursing
- Nutrition and gastrointestinal
- Parenteral nutrition
- Quality improvement
This paper is from 2015, more than five years ago. Newer evidence may have been published since.
Summary
French multicentre survey and retrospective cohort (NUTRIQUAL) across 29 NICUs examining nutrition practice in 276 moderately preterm infants born at 30 to 33 weeks' gestation. It compares intended with actual practice, assesses compliance with nutrition guidelines for parenteral amino acids, lipids and energy, and calculates cumulative nutritional deficits over the first two weeks. Weight Z-scores fell substantially by 36 weeks postconceptional age or discharge, with considerable extrauterine growth restriction. The authors call for better adherence to nutrition guidelines in this population.
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