Nutritional Intervention in a Cross-sector Model for the Rehabilitation of Geriatric Patients
NCT ID: NCT01776762
Last Updated: 2022-12-21
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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
NA
72 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2013-03-31
2013-12-31
Brief Summary
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The purpose of the Follow-home-programme is to facilitate the transition of the elderly patient between hospital and private home in order to follow-up on any medical, nursing- or retraining-related intervention necessary to the rehabilitation of the patient. However this offer does not focus on nutrition in particular. This is a problem as many elderly patients are known to develop a poor nutritional status due to low appetite, disease etc. Our hypothesis is that adding a systematic nutritional focus to the Follow-home intervention programme will promote the rehabilitation of the elderly patient further.
The nutritional intervention in our study will focus on improving energy- and protein intake and we will measure the effect on the patient's functional abilities, quality of life and rate of hospital readmissions. The intervention model will be based on individualized nutritional counselling by a registered dietician in the patients home.
Detailed Description
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Before and after the intervention data on the patient eg. hand-grip strength, nutritional status, dietary intake, functional abilities, well-being and activities of daily living will be gathered.
Conditions
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Keywords
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
TREATMENT
SINGLE
Study Groups
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Individual nutritional therapy
Individual nutritional therapy provided by registered dietician by means of three Home-visits
Individual nutritional therapy
Individual nutritional therapy provided by registered dietician by means of three Home-visits
Standard Follow-home programme
Standard Follow-home programme without individual nutritional therapy
No interventions assigned to this group
Interventions
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Individual nutritional therapy
Individual nutritional therapy provided by registered dietician by means of three Home-visits
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* Age +70 years
* Nutritional risk according to the level 1 screen in Nutritional Risk Screening 2002 (NRS2002)
* Nutritional therapy for at least 3 days and at least in two daily meals during the hospitalization period
* Participation in the standard Follow-home programme
Exclusion Criteria
* Expected readmissions
* Terminal disease
* Non-danish speaking
* Not able to perform Hand grip test
* Planning weight reducing diet
70 Years
ALL
Yes
Sponsors
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Copenhagen University Hospital at Herlev
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Christian Bitz
Head of research
Principal Investigators
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Christian Bitz, Cand Scient
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Copenhagen University Hospital at Herlev
Locations
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EFFECT, Copenhagen University Hospital at Herlev
Herlev, Copenhagen, Denmark
Countries
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References
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Beck A, Rask KØ, Leedo E, Jensen LL, Martins K, Vedelspang A (2014) Study Protocol: Nutritional Support in a Cross-sector Model for the Rehabilitation of Geriatric Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial. J Clin Trials 4: 165.
Pohju A, Belqaid K, Brandt C, Lugnet K, Nielsen AL, et al. (2016) Adding a Dietitian to a Danish Liaison-Team after discharge of geriatric patients at nutritional risk may save health care costs. Aging Sci 4: 159.
Beck A, Andersen UT, Leedo E, Jensen LL, Martins K, Quvang M, Rask KO, Vedelspang A, Ronholt F. Does adding a dietician to the liaison team after discharge of geriatric patients improve nutritional outcome: a randomised controlled trial. Clin Rehabil. 2015 Nov;29(11):1117-28. doi: 10.1177/0269215514564700. Epub 2014 Dec 31.
Other Identifiers
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EFFECT.B01.2012
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id