GRASS 2017.

Trial name or title	Does routine assessment of gastric residuals in preterm neonates influence time taken to reach full enteral feeding? (GRASS)
Methods	RCT
Participants	Infants born at 26 to 30 weeks' gestational age and birth weight < 1500 g
Interventions	Intervention: no routine aspiration of prefeed gastric residuals. Opening of the nasogastric tube once every 6 hours to relieve possible backflow of gastric content will be allowed Comparison: routine monitoring of gastric residuals before each feed
Outcomes	Primary outcome: time taken to achieve full enteral feeding (100 mL/kg/d) Secondary outcomes: episodes of withholding of enteral feeding, duration of TPN, duration of CVL usage, hypoglycaemia, late‐onset sepsis, NEC, spontaneous intestinal perforation, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, intraventricular haemorrhage, retinopathy of prematurity, and neurodevelopment at 24 months
Starting date	October 2017
Contact information	www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03111329
Notes	Study completion estimated for December 2018