Srinivasan 2017.

Study characteristics
Methods	Randomised controlled trial
Participants	32 preterm (< 37 weeks' gestation) infants with evidence of intrauterine growth restriction associated with absent or reversed end‐diastolic flow velocities in antenatal Doppler studies of the umbilical artery Setting: Neonatal Unit, KEM Hospital, Mumbai, India (2016 to 2017)
Interventions	Delayed enteral feeding (120 to 143 hours after birth, 16 infants) versus earlier enteral feeding (24 to 48 hours after birth, 16 infants) All infants received a combination of maternal or donor human milk.
Outcomes	NEC (not defined)* Mortality Feed intolerance Invasive infection Days to full enteral feeds Duration of hospital stay
Notes	Mean birth weight: 1139 g (SD 263 g) Mean gestation at birth: 32 weeks' *one episode of NEC occurred‐ associated with intestinal perforation
Risk of bias
Bias	Authors' judgement	Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias)	Low risk	Computer‐generated sequence
Allocation concealment (selection bias)	Low risk	Opaque sealed envelopes
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) All outcomes	High risk	Unmasked
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) All outcomes	High risk	Unmasked
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes	Low risk	All data were included in the analyses
Selective reporting (reporting bias)	Low risk	Unlikely
Other bias	Low risk	No evidence baseline imbalance