NCT04088825

Validation of the CONUT Software Tool for Screening Clinical Malnutrition in the University Hospital La Paz

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 233 (actual)
• Sponsor: Instituto de Investigación Hospital Universitario La Paz · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 15 Years
• Healthy volunteers: —

Summary

Nutrition Department of University Hospital La Paz decided to implement some method of screening in our centre which allowed us to detect as many patients with malnutrition risk as possible. Due to the large size of our centre, with about 1,500 beds and the few human resources in our unit, we chose to use the CONUT system (Nutritional Control), a 100% automatic method based on analytical parameters, very easy to use, low cost and whose validity is confirmed, characteristics that fulfilled our needs. The implementation of this nutritional screening method has led to a change in the ìnutritionafi culture of our centre respect to DRM in most of our professionals: doctors and nurses and even in the management team, so all of them understand the importance of the process and know about the available tools and knowledge to indicate an adequate and early nutritional support.

Conditions

• Malnutrition

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	CONUT screening system	CONUT has been working from june of 2010 and it has detected risk of malnutrition in 32% of the evaluated patients. The method collects information from databases of Admission Service (affiliation, age, date) and Laboratory (albumin, cholesterol, total lymphocytes) and generates, in the report of analytical results, "alert" information about each patient's nutritional risk and also nutritional recommendations based on the risk identified.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-07-15
• Primary completion: 2012-09-15
• Completion: 2012-12-31
• First posted: 2019-09-13
• Last updated: 2019-09-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain