Pediatric Feeding Disorder: Consensus Definition and Conceptual Framework.

ABSTRACT: Pediatric feeding disorders (PFDs) lack a universally accepted definition. Feeding disorders require comprehensive assessment and treatment of 4 closely related, complementary domains (medical, psychosocial, and feeding skill-based systems and associated nutritional complications). Previous diagnostic paradigms have, however, typically defined feeding disorders using the lens of a single professional discipline and fail to characterize associated functional limitations that are critical to plan appropriate interventions and improve quality of life. Using the framework of the World Health Organization International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health, a unifying diagnostic term is proposed: "Pediatric Feeding Disorder" (PFD), defined as impaired oral intake that is not age

SUBMITTER: Goday PS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6314510 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature