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Published in final edited form as: Am J Perinatol. 2015 May 22;32(13):1205–1216. doi: 10.1055/s-0035-1552941

Table 5.

Preterm infant clinical outcomes

	≤ 32 wk STS (N = 10)	≤ 32 wk non-STS (N = 10)	> 32 wk STS (N = 12)	> 32 wk non-STS (N = 10)
SNAPPE Acuity Score	15.2 ± 9.21	11.1 ± 5.11	4.3 ± 6.67	7.9 ± 7.29
Antibiotics at birth, N (%)	9 (90)	10 (100)	12 (100)	10 (100)
Respiratory intubation at birth, N (%)	4 (40)	10 (100)^a p < 0.005	7 (58)	6 (60)
Surfactant at birth, N (%)	4 (40)	9 (90)	7 (58)	6 (60)
Age at skin to skin: mean days (range)	11.1 (1–26)	NA	10.25 (5–20)	NA
Length of hospitalization, number of days ± SD	61 ± 14.8	111.8 ± 43.4^a	46.2 ± 18.5	65.6 ± 22.4 p < 0.0095
Necrotizing enterocolitis with surgery, N (%)	0 (0)	2 (20)	0 (0)	1 (10)
Growth velocity, g ± SD	18.6 ± 4.6	15.6 ± 6.8	21.6 ± 8.3	16.0 ± 3.6

^a

After accounting for gestational age and birth weight, length of hospitalization remained significantly different between the STS and non-STS groups.