Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT01057914
Effects of Nutritional Supplementation and Dietary Advice in Elderly Patients After Hospital Discharge.
Effects of Six Months Treatment With Nutritional Supplements or Dietary Advice, Alone or in Combination on Mortality, Health-related Quality of Life and Health-care Consumption for Elderly Patients at Risk of Malnutrition.
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 671 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Uppsala University · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 65 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of nutritional therapy in elderly malnourished patients. The hypothesises are that nutritional supplementation and dietary advice alone or in combination affects mortality, quality of life and health-care consumption after six month of treatment.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT | Nutritional supplementation with a liquid formula | The patient consumes 400 kcal from a liquid supplementation formula |
| OTHER | Dietary advice | The patient receives dietary advice for one hour during the hospital stay. |
| OTHER | Combination of supplement and dietary advice | The patient receives dietary advice for one hour during the hospital stay and consumes 400 kcal from liquid supplementation formula for six month after discharge. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2010-02-01
- Primary completion
- 2020-11-01
- Completion
- 2020-11-01
- First posted
- 2010-01-28
- Last updated
- 2020-11-10
Locations
5 sites across 1 country: Sweden
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01057914. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.