Late preterm survey

The new estimates in 2014 show that the incidence of preterm births widely varied across the world. Around 70% of preterm infants are born as late-preterm (between 32-37 wk of Gestational Age).
ESPGHAN guidelines published in 2010 are for stable preterm born infants with a body weight of 1000 to 1800 g. This means that half of the moderate preterm infants (≥32-33 6/7 weeks GA) and the majority of late preterm born infants (≥34-36 6/7 weeks GA) are not in scope of these recommendations. At the same time, they are also not in scope of nutritional guidelines for term infants, and have to be considered as a ‘new’ target group. Moderate to late preterm infants have a 2 to 10-fold increased incidence of mild to moderate morbidities compared with term infants, show a developmental delay and have a different growth pattern.
Today, nutritional care of preterm infants varies greatly among countries and centers, we foresee that this situation will also reflect those of late preterm. Thus the purpose of this initiative is to get more insight in current feeding practices in low, middle- and high-income countries.
This protocol describes a survey using electronic data capture to collect information on feeding practice and growth assessment during hospital care of late preterm infants.

1. Hospital care and feeding strategies are different among low, middle and high-income countries.
2. In lieu of no international guidelines on feeding late preterm infants, most of healthcare professionals will follow international guidelines for feeding preterm infants also for late preterm.
3. No specific guidelines are available to monitor growth of these infants during their hospital stay.

One time survey

NA (its a survey)