Cumulative analysis of frequency of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) per group and for each week of the study
| Subjects n | Patients with VAP | |||
| End of 1st week | End of 2nd week | End of 3rd week | ||
| Early gastrostomy group | 20 | 2/20# (10) | 2/18# (11.1) | 2/16# (12.5) |
| Control group | 21 | 1/20# (5) | 8/19# (42.1) | 8/18# (44.4) |
| p-value | >0.05 | <0.05 | <0.05 | |
Data are presented as n (%). #: The denominator indicates the number of participants remaining in the study at the end of each week.