Fenton Neonatal Growth
Neonatal growth reference for preterm infants.
What is Fenton Neonatal Growth?
Fenton Neonatal Growth: Neonatal growth reference for preterm infants. Population: Preterm newborns. Traceable evidence in PedsCore.
Population and scope
Growth & Percentiles. Preterm newborns
Also searched as
Fenton · fenton 2013 · legacy fenton · preterm growth · fenton legacy · crecimiento prematuro
Clinical use
This PedsCore page brings together clinical information, implementation status and available evidence for Fenton Neonatal Growth. It is intended for Preterm newborns. The tool belongs to Neonatology and should be interpreted in the appropriate clinical context.
Interpretation and validation
Legacy Fenton 2013 reference. PedsCore does not activate local calculation from the 2013 LMS parameters. The current operational tool is published separately as Fenton 2025 and delegates calculation to author-hosted/PediTools external tools.
PedsCore does not replace clinical judgement. Scores, rules and calculators are presented with evidence traceability and a visible implementation status.
Clinical review and maintenance
Implementation review and independent clinical review are shown separately. PedsCore does not attribute named reviewers or external endorsement without a public record supporting the claim. The repository preserves source, change and test history.
Editorial transparency
This page is part of an open-source project. Evidence level, implementation status, validation notes and sources are shown explicitly. It currently contains 1 catalog reference. Content and calculation changes are reviewed through the public repository, automated tests and version traceability.
The absence of an active calculator is not a clinical recommendation: some tools remain reference-only while source, licensing, exact variant or validation still require review.
Each page lets you verify what is being assessed, which population the tool describes, whether local calculation is available, which limitations remain open and which references support implementation. This context matters when different publications, versions or adaptations share a similar name but are not interchangeable.