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Effect of Early Nutritional Therapy on Frailty, Functional Outcomes and Recovery of Undernourished Medical Inpatients Trial

NCT02517476 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE4 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 2088

Last updated 2018-05-18

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The aims of the randomized-controlled, multicenter EFFORT trial are to assess the effects of early nutritional therapy in regard to effectiveness, safety and costs when applied to the heterogenous, polymorbid medical inpatient population. EFFORT will not only answer the question about overall benefit or harm, but using a physio-pathological mechanistic approach, it also will explore and provide conclusive answers about whether, why, how, and in which patient populations nutritional therapy does and does not works.

Conditions

  • Malnutrition

Interventions

DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

Nutritional therapy

Any nutritional product and route (i.e. food fortification, oral, enteral, parenteral) is possible to reach goals

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Swiss National Science Foundation

    collaborator OTHER

  • Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern

    collaborator OTHER

  • Luzerner Kantonsspital

    collaborator OTHER

  • Kantonsspital Münsterlingen

    collaborator OTHER

  • Clinical Trial Unit, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland

    collaborator OTHER

  • University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Philipp Schuetz, Prof. Dr. · University Clinic, Kantonsspital Aarau

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
16 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-04-30
Primary Completion
2018-05-15
Completion
2018-05-16

Countries

  • Switzerland

Study Locations

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