Skip to main content

View full-text article in PMC

. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Mar 20.

Published in final edited form as: J Perinatol. 2008 Oct 2;29(2):124–129. doi: 10.1038/jp.2008.140

Table 2.

Prediction model of days to full oral feeding from first oral feeding

	Preliminary model
Source	d.f.	F	P-value
Gender	1	6.61	0.0121
Morbidity	4	0.94	0.4443
Maturity
PMA	1	0.01	0.9037
NMA	1	0.15	0.7026
DOL	1	0.03	0.8540
Weight	1	0.43	0.5156
Experience	1	42.74	<0.0001
Error	77
R²=49%, model significance (F=6.7, P<0.0001)

	Final model

Gender	1	8.05	0.0057
Morbidity	2	4.45	0.0145
Experience	1	50.57	<0.0001
Error	88
R²=47%, model significance (F=19.6, P<0.0001)

Abbreviations: DOL, day of life; NMA, Neurobehavioral Maturity Assessment; PMA, post-menstrual age.