A decade of evidence: standardized feeding initiative targeting feeding milestones and predicting NICU stays in premature infants in an all-referral level IV NICU.

Analysis of data from the Simplified, Individualized, Milestone-targeted, Pragmatic, Longitudinal and Educational (SIMPLE) feeding initiative which discriminated by gestational age category to characterize the feeding milestones, length of hospital stays, annual variability and predictive models for length of hospital stays.