The cost effectiveness of tube feeding versus oral nutritional supplements in hospitalized patients with IBD
- Conditions
- Bowel DiseaseInflammatory Bowel Disease10017977
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 60
· Endoscopically or histologically proven Crohn*s disease or ulcerative
colitis before 3 months prior to randomization
· Age 18-70 years
· Written informed consent
· Adequate contraception for males and females during treatment and
follow up (written confirmation)
· All therapy is permitted concomitant therapy
· Patients must be hospitalized
· Pregnancy, breast-feeding
· Any other condition which in the opinion of the investigator would make
the patient unsuitable for enrollment, or could interfere with the patient
participating in and completing the study
· Total parental nutrition
· Bowel perforation
· Short bowel
· Neoplastic condition of the subject
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>The reduction of hospital stay in days of 30%</p><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>Quality of life and psychopathology by psychological assessment using the IBDQ<br /><br>questionnaire</p><br>