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The problem
Intervention: Management with predominantly enteral feeding (prioritizing mothers' own milk) without routine parenteral nutrition
Who it was tested with: 511 very low birth weight infants (mean gestational age 28.6 weeks, mean birth weight 1061.2 g) admitted to a tertiary neonatal unit in South Africa between January 2021 and December 2022.
The same group is measured before the intervention and again afterwards, with a baseline and an endline and sometimes a midline. Change is visible, but other causes cannot be ruled out.
"Nutritional practices prioritised mothers' own milk" and infants were "managed with predominantly enteral feeding in a tertiary neonatal unit," with measurements assessed at birth and discharge/transfer. The reasoning is that the study compares growth trajectories of infants managed with this specific feeding approach, demonstrating outcomes over their hospital course.
Retrospective design limits ability to establish causation; single-center study may limit generalizability; no comparison group receiving different feeding strategies; confounding factors not fully controlled
Across countries and designs
1 study · 1 country
