Early Detection of Malnutrition in Oncology Patients and Elderly Patients

Recruiting

Interventions: Diagnostic Test: Blood test
Diagnostic Test: Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis
Other: Nutritional Risk Assessment Questionnaire

Lead Sponsor: Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic

Brief Summary: The project is a national, prospective, multicenter, non-interventional pilot project of malnutrition screening in the Czech Republic.

The main goal of the project is to methodically prepare, implement and evaluate a pilot project that will verify the suitability of the proposed procedure for the early detection of malnutrition in oncology patients and hospitalised patients patients 65 years of age and older, as this has a significant effect on the quality of life and the effectiveness of the services provided oncological treatment.

Detailed Description: The main goal of the project is the early detection of malnutrition in oncology patients and hospitalised patients 65 years of age and older, as this has a significant effect on the quality of life and the effectiveness of the services provided oncological treatment.

Another goal of the project will be the creation of a unified diagnostic proposal process and methodological material for determining malnutrition. This process will then be designed as the standard of nursing practice for patients with an oncological diagnosis and for persons older than 65 years such that, so that an adequate nutritional intervention is started in time, which will lead to a higher tolerance of demanding treatment and thus to increase the quality of life.

The project will include testing the procedure on a sample of approx. 1,500 oncological and 500 geriatric patients.

The project is supported by the European Social Fund (Operational Program Employment plus) and the state budget of the Czech Republic and is registered by the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of the Czech Republic under ID: CZ.03.02.02/00/22_005/0000282.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria

Cohort Oncological patients:

Cohort Patients older than 65 years:

Exclusion Criteria (both cohorts):

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Oncological patients	Blood test	The inclusion criteria for the cohort of oncological patients are age 18+, an oncological diagnosis and a survival prognosis of at least 3 months.
Patients older than 65 years	Nutritional Risk Assessment Questionnaire	The inclusion criteria for this cohort are age 65 and older and hospitalization at least 14 days or longer.
Oncological patients	Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis	The inclusion criteria for the cohort of oncological patients are age 18+, an oncological diagnosis and a survival prognosis of at least 3 months.
Patients older than 65 years	Blood test	The inclusion criteria for this cohort are age 65 and older and hospitalization at least 14 days or longer.
Oncological patients	Nutritional Risk Assessment Questionnaire	The inclusion criteria for the cohort of oncological patients are age 18+, an oncological diagnosis and a survival prognosis of at least 3 months.
Patients older than 65 years	Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis	The inclusion criteria for this cohort are age 65 and older and hospitalization at least 14 days or longer.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number of people with malnutrition according to the PSNPO questionnaire	Until 31. 3. 2026

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Proportion of people with initiated nutritional intervention	Until 31. 3. 2026

Locations (9): Bulovka Hospital
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Prague, Czechia
Brno University Hospital
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Brno, Czechia
Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute
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Brno, Czechia
Hospital AGEL Nový Jičín a.s.
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Nový Jičín, Czechia
University Hospital Olomouc
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Olomouc, Czechia
University Hospital Pilsen
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Pilsen, Czechia
General University Hospital, Prague
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Prague, Czechia
Military University Hospital, Prague
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Prague, Czechia
University Hospital, Motol
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Prague, Czechia