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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Nov 28.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Perinatol. 2017 May 11;34(12):1234–1240. doi: 10.1055/s-0037-1603341

Table 1.

Characteristics of infants with and without unplanned extubations

Characteristic Infants without an
unplanned extubation
(n = 637)
Infants with an
unplanned extubation
(n = 81)
p-Value
Male sex, n (%) 370 (58) 45 (56) 0.67a
Race
  White 528 (83) 59 (73) 0.09a
  Black 91 (14) 19 (23)
  Otherb 18 (3) 3 (4)
Inborn, n (%) 253 (40) 38 (47) 0.2a
Day of life at NICU admission, median [IQR] 0 [0,1] 0 [0,5] 0.03c
Birth weight, median grams [IQR] 2,170 [1,170,3,060] 1,020 [694,2,320] <0.01c
Gestational age at birth, median weeks [IQR] 34 [29,37] 27 [25,35] <0.01c
CRIB score, median [IQR] 3 [0,4] 4 [1,7] <0.01c
Total ventilator days, median [IQR] 2 [1,6] 20 [5,40] <0.01c

Abbreviations: IQR, interquartile range; NICU, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

a

Chi-squared test.

b

Other races included Asian and Pacific Islander.

c

Wilcoxon rank–sum test.