Variation in Neonatal Nutrition Practice and Implications: A Survey of Australia and New Zealand Neonatal Units

Significant global variation exists in neonatal nutrition practice, including in assigned milk composition values, donor milk usage, fortification regimens, probiotic choice and in methods used to calculate and report nutrition and growth outcomes, making it difficult to synthesize data to inform evidence-based, standardized nutritional care that has potential to improve neonatal outcomes

Citation:
McLeod G, Farrent S, Gilroy M, Page D, Oliver CJ, Richmond F, et al. Variation in Neonatal Nutrition Practice and Implications: A Survey of Australia and New Zealand Neonatal Units. Front Nutr. 2021;8.

Keywords:
Dietitians and nutritionists; enteral nutrition; growth; neonatal nutrition practice;
neonatology

Abstract:
Significant global variation exists in neonatal nutrition practice, including in assigned milk composition values, donor milk usage, fortification regimens, probiotic choice and in methods used to calculate and report nutrition and growth outcomes, making it difficult to synthesize data to inform evidence-based, standardized nutritional care that has potential to improve neonatal outcomes