Postnatal Growth Restriction Is Reduced If Birth Weight Is Used for Nutritional Calculations in ELBW Infants

Table 1

Patient characteristics.

	Phase 1 (2005-09) (N=84). P1		Phase 2 (2012-14) (N=62) P2.
	Count	%	Count	%	Significance
Female	37	44.05%	31	52.54%	0.32
Gest Age-mean, std dev	25.74	1.32	26.47	1.82	0.01
Birth Wt-mean, std dev	766.98	127.95	744.84	166.82	0.37
Birth Weight <10	11	13.10%	26	41.94%	<.001
Birth HC <10	14	17.50%	17	27.42%	0.16
Discharge Weight <10	66	78.57%	27	43.55%	<.001
Discharge HC <10	27	33.33%	17	27.42%	0.45