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Postoperative Oral Nutritional Supplementation After Major Gastrointestinal Surgery

NCT01838109 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 174

Last updated 2015-05-27

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Patients who underwent major gastrointestinal surgery is potentially at risk of malnutrition due to reduced oral intake, increased nutritional need, reduced gastrointestinal absorption function, and/or metabolic changes after surgery. The postoperative malnutrition is associated with low quality of life and seems to be related long-term nutritional status. This study is a multicenter, open-labeled prospective randomized clinical trial to examine the effect of postoperative oral nutritional supplements (ONS) after major gastrointestinal surgery by comparing the change of body weight and other nutritional parameters between the experiment group that is supplied with ONS and the control group without ONS.

Conditions

Interventions

DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

oral nutritional supplement

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • JW Pharmaceutical

    collaborator INDUSTRY

  • Seoul National University Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Hyuk-Joon Lee, MD, PhD · Seoul National University Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-04-30
Primary Completion
2014-04-30
Completion
2014-04-30

Countries

  • South Korea

Study Locations

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