Investigating the effectiveness of a nutritional intervention to enhance patient recovery after elective major lung surgery

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Specialty: Cancer, Primary sub-specialty: Lung Cancer; UKCRC code/ Disease: Cancer/ Malignant neoplasms of respiratory and intrathoracic organs; Cancer; Lung cancer

• Registration Number: ISRCTN16535341
• Lead Sponsor: Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust

Brief Summary

2021 Preprint results in https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.08.21263295v1?ct= non-peer-reviewed results (added 21/09/2021) 2022 Results article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35768119/ (added 30/06/2022)

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2016-12-19
• Study Completion: 2017-12-21
• Last Update Posted: 5 August 2022

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 64

Inclusion Criteria

1. Patients, aged over 18
2. Undergoing elective major lung surgery (MLS)
3. Able to consume nutritional drinks prior to surgery
4. Able to give written informed consent

Exclusion Criteria

1. Likely inability to comply with completion of the study questionnaires
2. Body mass index (BMI) < 18.5 kg/m2
3. Receiving enteral nutrition
4. Known pregnancy

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Recruitment rate is recorded as the number of eligible participant who consent to participate in the study by 12 months.