Description of a Nutrition Screening and Assessment Tool and Associations with Clinical Outcomes in Preterm Newborns.

CONCLUSIONS: CL 3 and CL 4 patients had more BPD, ROP, PIVH, and mortality and longer enteral nutrition. Hospital stay was longer for CL ≥3 than CL 2 patients. Patients classified as CL 3 and CL 4 by the nutrition screening tool may have higher nutrition risk.
PMID: 33410545 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Nutrition in Clinical Practice - January 7, 2021 Category: Nutrition Authors: Belin CHS, Sarmento RA, Refosco LF, Bernardi JR Tags: Nutr Clin Pract Source Type: research