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Effects of Nutritional Supplementation and Dietary Advice in Elderly Patients After Hospital Discharge.

NCT01057914 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 671

Last updated 2020-11-10

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of nutritional therapy in elderly malnourished patients. The hypothesises are that nutritional supplementation and dietary advice alone or in combination affects mortality, quality of life and health-care consumption after six month of treatment.

Conditions

  • Malnutrition

Interventions

DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Nutritional supplementation with a liquid formula

The patient consumes 400 kcal from a liquid supplementation formula

OTHER

Dietary advice

The patient receives dietary advice for one hour during the hospital stay.

OTHER

Combination of supplement and dietary advice

The patient receives dietary advice for one hour during the hospital stay and consumes 400 kcal from liquid supplementation formula for six month after discharge.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Västmanland County Council, Sweden

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Uppsala University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Leif Bergkvist · Centre for clinical research, Landstinget Västmanland/Uppsala University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-02-28
Primary Completion
2020-11-30
Completion
2020-11-30

Countries

  • Sweden

Study Locations

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