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The Effect of Nutrition Follow up After Hospital Discharge in Undernourished Elderly

NCT01345032 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 208

Last updated 2015-12-31

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to test two different interventions of nutrition follow up after discharge from geriatric ward in undernourished geriatric patients. The patients are randomized to a home visit arm, a telephone consultation arm, or a control arm. Patients in the home visit arm and their home care helper will get visits from a clinical dietician at one week, two weeks and four weeks after discharge, in order to follow up on the nutrition intervention. Patients in the telephone consultation arm and their home care helper will be contacted by a clinical dietician at one week, two weeks and four weeks after discharge, in order to follow up on the nutrition intervention. The control arm will not be contacted.

The primarily outcome is functional ability. Secondary outcomes are quality of life, readmission and mortality.

Conditions

  • Under Nutrition

Interventions

OTHER

Home visit

Patients and their homecare helper will receive visits from a clinical dietician 1 week, 2 weeks and 4 weeks after discharge. The purpose of the visits is follow up on the individual diet plan distributed at discharge and supply dietary advice.

OTHER

Telephone consultation

Patients and their homecare helper will be contacted on telephone from a clinical dietician 1 week, 2 weeks and 4 weeks after discharge. The purpose of the telephone contact is follow up on the individual diet plan distributed at discharge and supply dietary advice.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Aarhus University Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jette Lindegaard Pedersen, MHSc. · Aarhus University Hospital

  • Else Marie S. Damsgaard, Professor · Aarhus University Hospital

  • Preben Ulrich Pedersen, Ph.D. · University of Aarhus

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-06-30
Primary Completion
2014-01-31
Completion
2015-12-31

Countries

  • Denmark

Study Locations

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