Effect of early stepwise nutrition management on feeding tolerance of postoperative patients with gastric cancer

Table 2 Comparison of the recovery of gastrointestinal function between the two patient groups, mean ± SD

Item	Length of hospital stay (days)	Bowel sound recovery time (hours)	First defecation time (hours)	Time of first defecation (hours)
Control group	14.89 ± 4.13	37.95 ± 3.64	61.12 ± 6.78	71.64 ± 8.51
Observation group	12.63 ± 3.79	37.23 ± 3.76	60.85 ± 7.01	68.02 ± 7.40
t value	5.892	0.141	0.293	4.713
P value	0.000	0.972	0.766	0.000