Table 3.
Oral feeding performance at first oral feeding by OFS level (mean ± SD)
| OFS level |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | p1 | |
| Number | 36 | 5 | 14 | 11 | |
| Infants at each level, % | 54.5 | 7.6 | 21.2 | 16.7 | |
| OT, % | 30.3 ± 23.6a-c | 84.8 ± 16.5a | 77.9 ± 21.1b, d | 96.3 ± 12.3c, d | <0.001 |
| PRO, % | 12.5 ± 7.3a, b | 23.1 ± 3.6c, d | 47.3 ± 20.2a, c, e | 64.4 ± 22.8b, d, e | <0.001 |
| RT, ml/min | 0.6 ± 0.4a-c | 1.9 ± 0.3a, d, e | 1.0 ± 0.2b, d, f | 2.6 ± 1.0c, e, f | <0.001 |
| Feeding duration, min | 14.9 ± 4.9a | 17.4 ± 2.5b | 15.9 ± 5.4c | 9.8 ± 4.7a-c | 0.007 |
| PMA at IOF, weeks | 36.8 ± 1.9a, b | 35.9 ± 1.1 | 35.6 ± 1.0a | 35.2 ± 1.4b | 0.020 |
| PMA at discharge, weeks | 38.9 ± 3.9 | 37.3 ± 1.1 | 37.6 ± 2.0 | 36.4 ± 1.4 | 0.102 |
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One-way ANOVA; post-hoc Bonferroni between different superscript letters p ≤ 0.05.