Toward Better Understanding of Pediatric Feeding Disorder: A Proposed Framework for Patient Characterization.

ABSTRACT: To establish a foundation for methodologically sound research on the epidemiology, assessment, and treatment of pediatric feeding disorder (PFD), a 28-member multidisciplinary panel with equal representation from medicine, nutrition, feeding skill, and psychology from seven national feeding programs convened to develop a case report form (CRF). This process relied upon recent advances in defining PFD, a review of the extant literature, expert consensus regarding best practices, and review of current patient characterization templates at participating institutions. The resultant PFD CRF involves patient characterization in four domains (ie, medical, nutrition, feeding skill, and psychosocial) and identifies the primary features of a feeding disorder based on PFD diagnostic criteria. A corre

SUBMITTER: Sharp WG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9365260 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature