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Impact of a Nutrition Quality Improvement Program on Outcomes of Malnourished Patients

NCT03011944 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 1546

Last updated 2018-05-29

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Summary

A nutrition-focused QIP will be implemented as standard of care at select branches of the home health division of the health care system. The QIP will be comprised of three groups of patients, Group 1 will consist of hospitalized, at-risk/malnourished patients being discharged to home health, Group 2 will consist of outpatients at-risk/malnourished patients enrolled in home health and Group 3 will consist of SNF, at-risk/malnourished patients being discharged to home health. Groups will be followed for 90 days post enrollment. The QIP groups will be compared to historical controls, concurrent controls, and matched concurrent controls across other sites within the health system.

Conditions

  • Malnutrition

Interventions

OTHER

Quality Improvement Program

Nutrition screening, Nutrition consult, Oral Nutritional Supplement will be implemented in the Home Health branches as standard of care.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Wake Forest University Health Sciences

    collaborator OTHER

  • Abbott Nutrition

    lead INDUSTRY

Principal Investigators

  • Suela Sulo, PhD, MSc · Abbott Nutrition

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-12-31
Primary Completion
2017-12-31
Completion
2018-03-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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