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Validation of the CONUT Software Tool for Screening Clinical Malnutrition in the University Hospital La Paz

NCT04088825 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 233

Last updated 2019-09-13

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Summary

Nutrition Department of University Hospital La Paz decided to implement some method of screening in our centre which allowed us to detect as many patients with malnutrition risk as possible. Due to the large size of our centre, with about 1,500 beds and the few human resources in our unit, we chose to use the CONUT system (Nutritional Control), a 100% automatic method based on analytical parameters, very easy to use, low cost and whose validity is confirmed, characteristics that fulfilled our needs. The implementation of this nutritional screening method has led to a change in the ìnutritionafi culture of our centre respect to DRM in most of our professionals: doctors and nurses and even in the management team, so all of them understand the importance of the process and know about the available tools and knowledge to indicate an adequate and early nutritional support.

Conditions

  • Malnutrition

Interventions

OTHER

CONUT screening system

CONUT has been working from june of 2010 and it has detected risk of malnutrition in 32% of the evaluated patients. The method collects information from databases of Admission Service (affiliation, age, date) and Laboratory (albumin, cholesterol, total lymphocytes) and generates, in the report of analytical results, "alert" information about each patient's nutritional risk and also nutritional recommendations based on the risk identified.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Instituto de Investigación Hospital Universitario La Paz

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Carmen Gómez Candela, Msc · Hospital Universitario La Paz

Eligibility

Min Age
15 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-07-15
Primary Completion
2012-09-15
Completion
2012-12-31

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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