Standardizing Neonatal Body Composition Assessment Using Air Displacement Plethysmography: Insights from the Bavarian Experience
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Abstract
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: system, is well established in research and increasingly explored in clinical practice. Building on our team's earlier experiences, this study aimed to (1) evaluate the safety and feasibility of ADP in preterm infants, (2) identify published clinical protocols, and (3) implement and assess a standardized routine-the Bavarian Clinical Protocol (BCP). METHODS: We conducted two systematic literature reviews: one on the eligibility-to-assessment rate and safety of ADP in research contexts, and a second focusing on existing clinical protocols. In addition, we retrospectively analyzed routine ADP assessments at the NICU of Nuremberg Children's University Hospital from January 2022 to December 2024, where the BCP had been introduced. RESULTS: The literature review included 76 studies reporting a total of 8,317 assessments without adverse events. In experimental settings, the eligibility-to-assessment rate was 41%. We identified three published clinical protocols. Following BCP implementation, 626 of 702 eligible infants (89.1%) underwent a total of 851 ADP measurements. No adverse events were observed, and repeated assessments were integrated smoothly into clinical workflows. CONCLUSIONS: ADP can be safely and effectively incorporated into neonatal routine care. The Bavarian Clinical Protocol provides a practical framework for standardized application, improves comparability across centers, and supports the clinical use of body composition data to inform individualized nutritional strategies.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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