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Effect of Continued Nutritional Support at Hospital Discharge on Mortality, Frailty, Functional Outcomes and Recovery

NCT04926597 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1200

Last updated 2024-11-20

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Summary

This study is to compare the sustained post-discharge nutritional support to reach individual energy and protein goals to usual care home nutrition in medical patients at nutritional risk.

Conditions

  • Malnutrition

Interventions

DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT

nutritional supplement

daily use of one or more specific oral nutritional supplement with high energy/protein content (i.e., Resource Ultra, Resource 2.0 (Fibre), Resource Ultra Fruit).

OTHER

individualized nutritional guidelines

nutritional plan supervised by an experienced study dietician based on the usual home nutrition with possibility to increase intake by adaptation to patient preferences, between meal snaking and food enrichment/fortification. Every 2-4 weeks phone call by unblinded study dietician to follow nutritional intervention.

OTHER

general nutritional information

general information about health food behavior upon hospital discharge

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Philipp Schuetz

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Philipp Schuetz, Prof. Dr. med. · Kantonsspital Aarau, University Department of Internal Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-08-05
Primary Completion
2026-12-31
Completion
2026-12-31

Countries

  • Spain
  • Switzerland

Study Locations

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