Development of a nutritional risk screening tool for preterm children in outpatient settings during a complementary feeding period: a pilot study

• Main Authors: Xiaoying He (Author), Zhuobin Jiang (Author), Cuiling Wu (Author), Lingyan Zeng (Author), Meijiao Qi (Author), Yalian Sun (Author), Yanna Zhu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background A complementary feeding (CF) period is necessary for nutritional and developmental reasons. Preterm children encounter more feeding problems than their term counterparts in the CF period. The goal of this study was to develop a nutritional risk screening tool specific to preterm...