Pilot Test for a Newly Developed Nutrition Screening Method: Pediatric Subjective Global Assessment

Completed

Conditions studied: Compare Two Nutrition Screening Tools

In brief

Researchers are studying ways to predict if cancer patients are at risk for poor nutrition during their chemotherapy treatment. They hope to identify children with nutrition problems early in treatment. This may help prevent weight loss and other nutrition problems later in treatment.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00665691

Run by

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

People needed

132

Starts

2003-09-01

Expected to finish

2010-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-04-26

Who can join

Age: 2 and older, up to 16. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• St. Jude Children's Research Hospital patient between 2 and 16 years of age who is actively receiving treatment for a hematologic or solid tumor malignancy
• Patient is not admitted to the transplant service
• Patient is able to read English or Spanish

Where it is running

• St. Jude Children's Research Hospital — Memphis, Tennessee, United States

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