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abstract

  • To the Editor.— The provocative study by Field et al (Pediatrics 1986;77:654-658) attributes a 47% increase in rate of weight gain to tactile/kinesthetic stimulation of preterm infants, but the reader is presented with a number of perplexing problems in interpretation. We are unable to understand the randomization process, which was achieved after a stratification exercise designed to divide patients into eight poststratification groups. If these were equal in size, then each group must have contained five patients, an odd number.

publication date

  • January 1, 1987