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Minimal-Massive Intervention in Elderly Patients With Dysphagia

NCT02396992 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 62

Last updated 2019-05-01

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Summary

The purpose of this study is to apply a minimal-massive intervention (minimal recommendations to maximal number of patients) to elderly (\>70 years) hospitalized patients with oropharyngeal dysphagia (OD). The intervention will consist of early screening and assessment of OD, malnutrition and oral hygiene. Patients will be given recommendations for adaptation of volume and viscosity of fluids, nutritional support and good oral hygiene practices and followed at 3, 6, 9 and 12 months after discharge. In every point of the follow-up period, patients will be re-evaluated to adjust recommendations and to verify their compliance with the treatment.

The objectives of the intervention are to have an impact on complications related to OD (avoid impaired safety alterations and improve nutritional and oral health status and reduce) and to reduce readmissions, readmissions for pneumonia and morbimortality.

Conditions

  • Oropharyngeal Dysphagia

Interventions

OTHER

Minimal-Massive Intervention

The intervention will consist in basic recommendations based on the evaluations done at admission and discharge: a) diet adaptation (solids and fluids) based on dysphagia clinical evaluation (V-VST) to avoid efficacy or safety alterations; b) nutritional supplements in case of malnutrition (MNA-sf; bioimpedance and blood analysis) to improve nutritional status;and c) oral health and hygiene recommendations (toothbrushing and antiseptic mouthwashes to decline bacterial colonization).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hospital de Mataró

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Pere Clavé, PhD; MD · Hospital de Mataró

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-03-31
Primary Completion
2015-06-30
Completion
2015-09-30

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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