NCT03488511

The Impact of Preoperative FoodforCare at Home

The Impact of Preoperative FoodforCare at Home on Nutritional and Functional Outcomes

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 126 (actual)
• Sponsor: Radboud University Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Preoperative nutritional state is closely related to perioperative morbidity and complications. This study aims to determine the effect of a protein-rich meal service in the preoperative setting compared to usual care.

Detailed description

Each year, approximately 1.4 million patients in the Netherlands are operated. Adequate nutritional intake, mainly protein intake, before surgery is important to improve preoperative muscle strength and functional capacity. However, up to 40% of patients admitted to the hospital suffer from malnutrition and this further deepened during hospitalization, which is an independent risk factor for peri-operative morbidity and severe complications, ranging from increased muscle loss, to higher infection rates, delayed wound healing and subsequently a prolonged hospital stay. An adequate food service is one strategy to improve protein intake and thereby the nutritional status. Extension of the study period to the out-of-hospital setting is recommended to explore the effects of long-term exposure to this concept on nutritional, functional and clinical outcomes. Therefore, the investigators aim to evaluate whether home delivered protein-rich meals, as part of FoodforCare meal service, in the preoperative setting improves protein intake in patients undergoing surgery, compared to usual care. The second aim is to investigate the effects on functional and clinical outcomes.

Conditions

• Surgery

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	FoodforCare at home	Six small protein rich meals that will be delivered twice a week for 3 weeks.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-03-05
• Primary completion: 2019-06-01
• Completion: 2019-09-01
• First posted: 2018-04-05
• Last updated: 2020-02-19

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Netherlands