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

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Conditions studied: Malnutrition

In brief

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.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04926597

Run by

Philipp Schuetz

People needed

1200

Starts

2021-08-05

Expected to finish

2026-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2024-11-20

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Informed Consent as documented by signature
• Adult (age ≥18 years), medical patients
• Nutritional risk screening using the Nutritional Risk Screening (NRS): total score ≥3 points consisting of ≥1 points for impairment of the nutritional status [weight loss >5% in 3 month or food intake of 50-75% in the last week before hospital admission] plus ≥1 for the severity of the disease (i.e., cancer, chronic kidney disease, chronic heart failure, COPD) and other chronic diseases according to the definition of the "National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion": Chronic diseases are defined broadly as conditions that last 1 year or more and require ongoing medical attention or limit activities of daily living or both .

You may not qualify if…

• after surgery
• unable to ingest oral nutrition
• need for long-term nutrition,
• terminal condition
• acute pancreatitis or acute liver failure
• patients discharged to a nursing home
• patients unlikely to comply with nutritional support treatment (e.g., dementia)
• COVID-Hospitalisation requiring intensive care

Where it is running

• Hospital Universitari Vall Hebron de Barcelona — Barcelona, Spain (enrolling)
• Hospital Universitario de Getafe — Getafe, Spain (enrolling)
• Complejo AComplejo Asistencial Universitario de León — León, Spain (enrolling)
• Hospital U. Gregorio Marañón de Madrid — Madrid, Spain (enrolling)
• Hospital Universitario Regional de Málaga — Málaga, Spain (enrolling)
• Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valladolid — Valladolid, Spain (enrolling)
• Spital Thun — Thun, Canton of Bern, Switzerland (enrolling)
• Spital Lachen — Lachen, Canton of Schwyz, Switzerland (enrolling)
• Kantonsspital Münsterlingen — Münsterlingen, Thurgau, Switzerland (enrolling)
• Kantonsspital Aarau, University Department of Internal Medicine — Aarau, Switzerland (enrolling)
• Stadtspital Zürich — Zurich, Switzerland
• Universitätsspital Zürich — Zurich, Switzerland
• Bern University Hospital, Department of General Internal Medicine — Bern, Switzerland
• Kantonsspital Lucerne, Department of Internal Medicine — Lucerne, Switzerland
• Spital Zofingen — Zofingen, Canton of Aargau, Switzerland
• Spital Emmental Burgdorf — Burgdorf, Canton of Bern, Switzerland
• Kantonsspital Sankt Gallen — Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
• Klinik Hirslanden Zürich — Zurich, Switzerland

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