Validation of the CONUT Software Tool for Screening Clinical Malnutrition in the University Hospital La Paz

NCT ID: NCT04088825

Last Updated: 2019-09-13

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Total Enrollment: 233 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2012-07-15
• Study Completion Date: 2012-12-31

Brief Summary

Nutrition Department of University Hospital La Paz decided to implement some method of screening in our centre which allowed us to detect as many patients with malnutrition risk as possible. Due to the large size of our centre, with about 1,500 beds and the few human resources in our unit, we chose to use the CONUT system (Nutritional Control), a 100% automatic method based on analytical parameters, very easy to use, low cost and whose validity is confirmed, characteristics that fulfilled our needs. The implementation of this nutritional screening method has led to a change in the ìnutritionafi culture of our centre respect to DRM in most of our professionals: doctors and nurses and even in the management team, so all of them understand the importance of the process and know about the available tools and knowledge to indicate an adequate and early nutritional support.

Conditions

Malnutrition

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: COHORT
• Study Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE

Interventions

CONUT screening system

CONUT has been working from june of 2010 and it has detected risk of malnutrition in 32% of the evaluated patients. The method collects information from databases of Admission Service (affiliation, age, date) and Laboratory (albumin, cholesterol, total lymphocytes) and generates, in the report of analytical results, "alert" information about each patient's nutritional risk and also nutritional recommendations based on the risk identified.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Patients of both sexes
• Patients older than 15 years
• Patients admitted to the General Hospital or Traumatology area
• Patients who have signed the informed consent to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria

• Pregnant women.
• Patients whose physical and / or psychic capacity prevents them from providing all the data collected by the evaluated methods or who do not have a caregiver.
• Non-collaborating patients in data collection
• Patients in whom a hospital stay of less than 48 hours is expected.
• Patients who at the time of performing the analyzes are in the ICU and OER

• Minimum Eligible Age: 15 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Instituto de Investigación Hospital Universitario La Paz

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Carmen Gómez Candela, Msc

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Hospital Universitario La Paz

Locations

Institute for Health Research IdiPAZ

Madrid, , Spain

Countries

Spain

Other Identifiers

HULP PI-2340

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id