NCT00574431

ICU Nutrition Study Bern

Implementation of an Evidence-based Nutritional Management Protocol in Critically Ill Patients:Does Clinical Outcome Improve?

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 200 (actual)
• Sponsor: Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Nutritional treatment has become an essential component of the management of critically ill, due to better knowledge about positive impact of nutritional support. Malnutrition among ICU patients is associated with increased morbidity, mortality, length of stay (LOS) and therefore higher costs.Several studies however suggest, that early implementation of nutritional support is associated with improved clinical outcome, shorter LOS, and decreased infection rates. One of the objectives of this study is to determine if an nutrition protocol can improve the delivery of enteral tube feeding in the ICU.

Conditions

• Critical Illness
• Starvation
• Enteral Nutrition

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Data Collection	Collection of patient data before implementation of a nutritional management protocol
OTHER	Nutritional management protocol	Collection of patient data after implementation of a nutritional management protocol

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-02-01
• Primary completion: 2009-03-01
• Completion: 2009-03-01
• First posted: 2007-12-17
• Last updated: 2015-07-14