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Feeding the Patient at Nutritional Risk: Does the Clinical Outcome Improve?

NCT00440453 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE4 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 200

Last updated 2011-09-23

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Summary

The aim of the present study is to take stronger action in solving the problems of malnutrition in the hospital setting and in the first two months after patient's discharge. The main objective is to evaluate the clinical benefit (eg. QoL, body composition and body function) of nutritional intervention (nutritional therapy) in a sample of patients at nutritional risk according to the NRS 2002.

Conditions

  • Malnutrition

Interventions

OTHER

Nutritional therapy

Nutritional therapy by dietician

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Samuel W Iff, MD · University hospital Berne

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-02-28
Primary Completion
2008-06-30
Completion
2008-08-31

Countries

  • Switzerland

Study Locations

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