NCT03011944

Impact of a Nutrition Quality Improvement Program on Outcomes of Malnourished Patients

Assessing the Impact of a Comprehensive Nutrition-Focused Quality Improvement Program (QIP) on Health and Economic Outcomes of Malnourished Adult Patients Across the Continuum of Care

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 1,546 (actual)
• Sponsor: Abbott Nutrition · Industry
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

A nutrition-focused QIP will be implemented as standard of care at select branches of the home health division of the health care system. The QIP will be comprised of three groups of patients, Group 1 will consist of hospitalized, at-risk/malnourished patients being discharged to home health, Group 2 will consist of outpatients at-risk/malnourished patients enrolled in home health and Group 3 will consist of SNF, at-risk/malnourished patients being discharged to home health. Groups will be followed for 90 days post enrollment. The QIP groups will be compared to historical controls, concurrent controls, and matched concurrent controls across other sites within the health system.

Conditions

• Malnutrition

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Quality Improvement Program	Nutrition screening, Nutrition consult, Oral Nutritional Supplement will be implemented in the Home Health branches as standard of care.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-12-01
• Primary completion: 2017-12-01
• Completion: 2018-03-01
• First posted: 2017-01-06
• Last updated: 2018-05-29

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States