NCT03522558

Medical Nutrition Therapy for Medically Complex Infants in the Pediatric Outpatient Setting

Medical Nutrition Therapy for Medically Complex Infants in the Pediatric Outpatient Setting. A Quality Improvement Project

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 200 (estimated)
• Sponsor: The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 2 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to compare standardized nutrition therapy provided by a registered dietitian (RD) at regularly scheduled intervals to usual care in terms of the ability to improve growth parameters in medically complex infants in the pediatric outpatient setting.

Conditions

• Growth Failure in Medically Complex Infants
• Growth Failure
• Malnutrition in Medically Complex Infants
• Malnutrition
• Nutrition in Medically Complex Infants
• Nutrition
• Nutrition Disorder, Infant

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Standardized Medical Nutrition Therapy	Standardized Medical Nutrition Therapy will include nutrition assessment provided by a registered dietitian (RD) at initial clinic visit or first Well Child Check (WCC) and regularly scheduled nutrition follow-up at each WCC visit thereafter.
BEHAVIORAL	Usual Care	At the primary care provider's discretion, a nutrition consult can be requested for the RD to perform nutrition assessment or discuss the patient's plan without full nutrition assessment, as is current practice. Currently in the Neonatal High-Risk Clinic (NHRC) and High Risk Children's Clinic (HRCC) at UTHealth, providers consult the RD as deemed appropriate with no established criteria for when to include the RD in patient care. Usual care will not be modified by the study protocol.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-07-01
• Primary completion: 2019-06-01
• Completion: 2019-06-01
• First posted: 2018-05-11
• Last updated: 2018-05-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States