ntreated Malnutrition is Associated with Increased Morbidity and Mortality in Septic Orthopaedic Trauma Patients
- Conditions
- We defined septic orthopedic trauma patients as any patient who presented to our level I trauma center suffering from impaired wound healing, post-operative tissue infection, acute or chronic osteomyelitis, implant associated infection or prosthetic joint infection
- Registration Number
- DRKS00018935
- Lead Sponsor
- Siegfried Weller Institut für unfallmedizinische Forschung der Berufsgenossenschaftlichen Unfallklinik Tübingen
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 345
Inclusion Criteria
Written consent
-at least treatet for 1 night as an inpatient at the septic orthopeadic ward
Exclusion Criteria
- Patient rejected to participate
- critically ill and therefore required intensive care treatment
- suffering from dementia
- Pat. under 18 years
- insufficient knowledge of German language
Study & Design
- Study Type
- observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The aim of this study was to assess morbidity, readmission rate and mortality in septic orthopaedic trauma patients at risk of malnutrition over a 3-year follow-up
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Healt Outcome (EuroQol 5D)