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Individual Nutritional Intervention for the Prevention of Readmission Among Geriatric Patients

NCT03519139 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2018-10-11

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether a four-week individual nutritional intervention can reduce the readmission/hospitalization rate among geriatric patients who are discharged to their private home or respite care. Secondarily, whether an individual nutritional intervention can improve nutritional status, functional status, quality of life, muscle strength and reduce mortality in geriatric patients after discharge Two sub-points are investigated using feasibility studies - if photography documentation of meals can be used in practice to assess the energy and protein intake of geriatric patients and whether photography documentation of the refrigerator content at first home visits in the intervention group can predict whether there is an increased risk of readmission.

Conditions

  • Readmission

Interventions

OTHER

individual dietary counselling

individual dietary counsellings with the aim to ensure sufficient coverage of energy and protein needs of the test subjects

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Jens Rikardt Andersen

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jens Rikardt Andersen, ass. prof. · University of Copenhagen

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-02-08
Primary Completion
2018-05-01
Completion
2018-06-15

Countries

  • Denmark

Study Locations

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