Malnutrition in Chinese Hospitalized Patients and Optimizing the Usage of Nutritional Screening Tools

Completed

• Conditions: Malnutrition

• Registration Number: NCT02241746
• Lead Sponsor: Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is:

* to diagnose malnutrition in Chinese hospitalized patients with four nutritional screening tools: mini-nutritional assessment - short form, subjective global assessment, malnutrition universal screening tool and nutritional risk screening 2002.

* to optimize the usage of nutritional screening tools based on data-mining methods.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2012-08
• Primary Completion: 2012-09
• Status Verified: 2014-09
• Study First Submitted: 2014-09-11
• Study First Submitted QC: 2014-09-13
• Study First Posted: 2014-09-16
• Last Update Submitted: 2014-09-16
• Last Update Posted: 2014-09-18

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 856

Inclusion Criteria

• Ages≥18; admitted to hospital≥24h and did not receive operation until 8.am next day.

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients who were pregnant or breast-feeding, and those who could not be interviewed or provide informed consent were excluded.

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
prevalence of malnutrition on admission detected by the four nutritional screening tools	up to 4 weeks	The measure of prevalence of malnutrition on admission is a composite outcome measure. In our study, we used four nutritional screening tools: MUST(malnutrition universal screening tool), SGA(subjective global assessment), MNA-SF(mini-nutritional assessment-short form) and NRS2002(nutritional risk screening 2002) to assess the malnutrition risk among Chinese hospitalized patients.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine; 🇨🇳 Shanghai, Shanghai, China