Impact of a Nutrition Quality Improvement Program on Outcomes of Malnourished Patients
Completed
Conditions studied: Malnutrition
In brief
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.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT03011944
- Run by
- Abbott Nutrition
- People needed
- 1546
- Starts
- 2016-12-01
- Expected to finish
- 2018-03-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2018-05-29
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Admitted to home health from within the healthcare system's hospitals, skilled nursing facility (SNF) or outpatient clinics
- Patient is screened positive for malnutrition during hospital stay and/or by home health nutrition screening tool upon enrollment into home health
- Patient is able to consume foods and beverages orally and the physician has not indicated otherwise
You may not qualify if…
- Enrollment to home health from a hospital, SNF or outpatient clinic not affiliated with the healthcare system
- Patient is pregnant
- Patient is intubated, receiving tube feeding or parenteral nutrition
- Patient has severe dementia or delirium
- History of significant psychiatric disorder
- Any other disorder that may interfere with QIP product consumption or compliance with QIP protocol procedures as per the admitting clinicians
- Subject has stated an allergy or intolerance to any of the ONS ingredients
- Patients receiving hospice care
Where it is running
- Advocate at Home — Des Plaines, Illinois, United States
- Advocate at Home- South Office — Oak Lawn, Illinois, United States
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