Research Article
Effect of Four Approaches to Oral Feeding Progression on Clinical Outcomes in Preterm Infants
Table 4
Weight gain during oral feedings.
| | Groups | | Weight gain per week (grams) | | Infants | Observations | LS mean | SE | 95% CI |
| | Intervention | | | | | | | | Group 1 | 18 | 467 | 202.5 | 9.3 | 184.1 | 221.0 | | Group 2 | 25 | 627 | 206.0 | 8.1 | 190.0 | 222.1 | | Group 3 | 24 | 446 | 206.1 | 8.1 | 189.9 | 222.4 | | Group 4 | 19 | 297 | 207.1 | 9.1 | 188.9 | 225.3 | | Morbidity | | | | | | | | NMI 1 | 22 | 290 | 214.5 | 8.9 | 196.7 | 232.3 | | NMI 2 | 19 | 279 | 215.2 | 9.7 | 195.9 | 234.5 | | NMI 3 | 26 | 659 | 214.7 | 7.1 | 200.5 | 228.9 | | NMI 4 | 7 | 224 | 169.01 | 13.7 | 141.8 | 196.3 | | NMI 5 | 12 | 385 | 213.6 | 10.8 | 192.3 | 235.2 |
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1Significantly different from NMI 3 at p = 0.05.
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