Nutrition Screening - Route to a More Practical Method

NCT ID: NCT05546034

Last Updated: 2022-09-19

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

300 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2021-09-06

Study Completion Date

2022-03-23

Brief Summary

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Observational study. Comparison of existing nutritional screening tools based on questionnaires with blood tests already performed on a routine basis.

No intervention undertaken.

Detailed Description

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Nutrition screening is of established benefit but is difficult to ensure in ordinary clinical practice. It is relatively labour intensive. The investigation aims to determine whether routinely collected laboratory data could provide comparable information without the need for personnel time. It is known that individual blood tests do not provide sufficient sensitivity or specificity but it is hypothesised that combinations of tests could do so.

Included subjects are those admitted to the University Hospital department of internal medicine. All are eligible other than those subject to protective isolation for infection control (COVID, etc). Data collection is in the form of questionnaires to permit the calculation of 3 tools widely used for screening for malnutrition and malnutrition risk, namely the Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST), the Nutrition Risk Screening 2002 (NRS-2002) and the Subjective Global Assessment (SGA). Nutritional status is documented by the patient's status according to the international definition provided by the Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM).

The blood tests already performed on a routine basis are captured to go alongside the nutrition screening tools.

Analysis will aim to determine whether combinations of laboratory data can simulate or replicate the information provided by MUST and NRS2002.

Conditions

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Internal Medicine

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Interventions

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Standard nutrition screening tools to be compared with routine blood tests

None other than completion of questionnaires one of which would be done in routine practice

Intervention Type DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

In-patient in department of internal medicine

Exclusion Criteria

Unable to complete questionnaire or in protective isolation
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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University of Tartu

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Alastair Forbes

Visiting Professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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Tartu Ülikooli Kliinikum

Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

Site Status

Countries

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Estonia

Provided Documents

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Document Type: Study Protocol

View Document

Other Identifiers

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PKL-127

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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