Feeding Schedule in Preterm Infants: Two hourly versus Three Hourly

Abstract

vii) Though the authors have presented time to full enteral feeds, many preterm neonates (<1250 grams) must be on tube feeds at the time of enrolment. It will be interesting to know whether there was any difference among the two groups in the time to reach full oral feeds (spoon/paladi/ cup) and the duration of the transition in neonates who were on tube feeds at enrolment. Recently a group of researchers advocated that the clinical trials should choose uniform outcome measures and report all clinically relevant outcomes for uniformity [5]. For trials related to feeding a set of important clinical outcomes shall also include weight gain (g/kg/d), time to regain birth weight, length of hospital stays, duration of parenteral nutrition, sepsis rates, along with other vital outcomes like retinopathy of prematurity and bronchopulmonary dysplasia. The authors should report this data to improve the generalizability of the study.