NCT03412695

Development of a Decision Support System to Prevent and Treat Disease-related Malnutrition

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (actual)
• Sponsor: Oslo University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The prevalence of disease-related malnutrition among hospitalized patients is 30-50%. There is a lack of tools to follow up the nutritional treatment of these patients. The investigators develop the decision support system "MyFood" which can be used to assess patients' dietary intake, evaluate intake against individual needs, and propose nutrition related measures and an individual nutrition plan for each patient. The investigators will study the clinical effects of using MyFood among hospitalized patients. In addition the implementation of the tool among healthcare workers will be studied.

Detailed description

The prevalence of disease-related malnutrition among hospitalized patients is 30-50%. Disease-related malnutrition increase the morbidity and mortality among patients and leads to longer length of stay. There is a lack of tools to follow up the nutritional treatment of patients at nutritional risk. The decision support system "MyFood" is developed in the project with the purpose to prevent and treat disease-related malnutrition. MyFood includes 4 modules: 1) A function to register patient needs and symptoms, 2) Dietary assessment function, 3) Automatic evaluation of dietary intake compared to individual needs, 4) Feedback, including a report on intake of energy, protein, and liquids compared to individual needs, and recommendations for nutritional measures and an individual nutrition plan. Clinical effects of using MyFood among hospitalized patients will be studied in a randomized controlled trial. In addition, the implementation of the tool among nurses and other healthcare workers will be explored.

Conditions

• Malnutrition

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	MyFood	Patients included in the intervention group will use the MyFood app to record their dietary intake. Nurses will use the report and recommendations in the MyFood tool to follow up the nutritional treatment of the patients.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-08-22
• Primary completion: 2019-05-31
• Completion: 2019-05-31
• First posted: 2018-01-26
• Last updated: 2019-07-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Norway