Francesca Giuliani, Leila Cheikh Ismail, Enrico Bertino, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Eric O Ohuma, Ilaria Rovelli, Agustin Conde-Agudelo, José Villar, Stephen H Kennedy
BACKGROUND: There is no consensus with regard to which charts are most suitable for monitoring the postnatal growth of preterm infants. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to assess the strategies used to develop existing postnatal growth charts for preterm infants and their methodologic quality. DESIGN: A systematic review of observational longitudinal studies, having as their primary objective the creation of postnatal growth charts for preterm infants, was conducted...
February 2016: American Journal of Clinical Nutrition