Impact of an In-House Pediatric Surgery Unit and Human Milk Centered Enteral Nutrition on Necrotizing Enterocolitis

Table 3

Enteral feeding regimens.

		Center 1	Center 2	p-value
Exclusively human milk (%)		24.2	59.3	<0.0001
Human milk combined with formula (%)		6.6	16.6	0.0250
Exclusively formula milk (%)		69.2	24.1	<0.0001
Amount of oral feeds in ml/kg/die (median, mean ± SD)	on day 5	49 (50.33; 29.97)	45 (47.65; 28.69)	0.4962
	on day 10	102 (101.1; 44.68)	99 (98.19; 42.01)	0.6072
	on day 15	139 (117.3; 59.58)	145 (135.5; 40.08)	0.0032
Prophylaxis with probiotics (%) on day 14 of life		76,5	83,3	0,99