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Pilot Test for a Newly Developed Nutrition Screening Method: Pediatric Subjective Global Assessment

NCT00665691 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 132

Last updated 2017-04-26

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Researchers are studying ways to predict if cancer patients are at risk for poor nutrition during their chemotherapy treatment. They hope to identify children with nutrition problems early in treatment. This may help prevent weight loss and other nutrition problems later in treatment.

Conditions

  • Compare Two Nutrition Screening Tools

Interventions

OTHER

Nutritional Screening Tools

To compare the nutrition risk identification abilities of two nutrition screening tools: PEDSGA tool and the standard assessment tool.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Karen Smith, RD, MS, LDN · St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Eligibility

Min Age
2 Years
Max Age
16 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2003-09-30
Primary Completion
2010-07-31
Completion
2010-07-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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