NCT05393752

Malnutrition Assessment Tools in Surgery

Evaluation of Malnutrition Risk Assessment Tools in General Surgery.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 1,650 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital of Crete · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 108 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the main malnutrition risk assessment tools in patients undergoing operations of general surgery.

Detailed description

This is a multi centre prospective observational study including patients undergoing major/major+ operation of general surgery. Patients will be interviewed by surgical trainees and their malnutrition risk will be assessed with the use of SGA, MUST, NRS, MNA-SF etc. Clinical variables and demographics will also be recorded in order to enable meaningful comparisons of malnutrition risk assessment tools in terms of serious postoperative complications.

Conditions

• Malnutrition
• Surgery--Complications

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-05-01
• Primary completion: 2024-05-01
• Completion: 2024-05-01
• First posted: 2022-05-26
• Last updated: 2024-05-08

Locations

2 sites across 2 countries: Cyprus, Greece