Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT03493100
Hohenheim Malnutrition Study in Geriatric Fracture Patients
Influence of Oral Nutritional Supplementation in Geriatric Fracture Patients on Muscle Functionality, Quality of Life and Nutritional Status
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 106 (actual)
- Sponsor
- University of Hohenheim · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 65 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
The aim of this study is to evaluate long-term effects of early and prolonged individualized and optimized nutritional support using ONS for four weeks, in combination with a defined physiotherapy regimen, on sarcopenia and other outcome parameters in elderly fracture patients.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT | oral nutritional supplementation | The intervention group will receive optimized nutritional support, by ONS. While hospitalized each patient receives 2 portions of oral supplementation per day. For remaining days supplementation is calculated individually according to a sarcopenia/energy balance schema resulting in none or maximum 2 portions per day. |
| OTHER | Usual care | The control group will receive treatment according to usual care. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2016-09-15
- Primary completion
- 2018-04-30
- Completion
- 2018-10-25
- First posted
- 2018-04-10
- Last updated
- 2018-10-26
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Germany
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03493100. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.