. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Perinatol. 2014 Jul 17;34(10):741–747. doi: 10.1038/jp.2014.79

Table 2.

Impact of postnatal infection on hospital factors (controlled for PMA)

	Length of stay (95% CI)	Total days on TPN (95% CI)	Total days of ventilation (95% CI)
	P value^*	P value^*	P value^*
Sepsis	16.2 (11.3, 23.4)	30.5 (23.9, 38.8)	87.7 (70.8, 108.5)
	< 0.001	< 0.001	0.018
Necrotizing enterocolitis	53.1 (51.8, 74.4)	28.1 (18.1, 43.5)	5.7 (3.1, 10.3)
	0.479	0.003	0.016
Necrotizing enterocolitis with sepsis	85.4 (56.6, 128.8)	47.4 (29.0, 77.6)	12.9 (6.4, 26.3)
	0.149	< 0.001	< 0.001
Clinically suspected infection	19.3 (12.3, 30.3)	47.4 (24.7, 44.1)	96.8 (76.9, 122.1)
	0.001	< 0.001	0.003
No infection	2.5 (1.9, 3.4)	13.4 (11.0, 16.4)	62.4 (52.5–74.2)

Compared to no infection

TPN - Total parenteral nutrition