NCT01249716
Completed
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Follow-up Home Visits With Nutrition (OHE)
ConditionsMalnutrition
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Malnutrition
- Sponsor
- University of Copenhagen
- Enrollment
- 152
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- hospital readmissions
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 14 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
To assess the effect on geriatric patients of follow-up home visit including nutrition.
The hypothesis is that this can prevent hospital readmissions, and has a positive impact on functional abilities and quality of life
Detailed Description
Before and after the intervention the participants nutritional status, hand grip strength, functional abilities, well-being, dietary intake, level of tiredness,and activities of daily living will be assessed
Investigators
AAstrup
professor
University of Copenhagen
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Geriatric patients in nutritional risk
Exclusion Criteria
- •Expected readmissions
- •Terminal disease
- •Non-Danish speaking
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
hospital readmissions
Time Frame: one year
Secondary Outcomes
- body weight(12 weeks)
Study Sites (1)
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