Nursing practice of routine gastric aspiration in preterm infants and its link to necrotizing enterocolitis: is the practice still clinically relevant?

Although the multivariate analysis (Table 5 ) suggested a possible association between gastric residual aspiration and NEC, with an odds ratio of 1.20 (95% CI: 0.98–1.47), the relationship did not reach statistical significance at the conventional 0.05 level ( p = 0.08).

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