Analysis of EPA® (a Food Intake Assessment Tool) as a Screening Test for Malnutrition in General Medicine (GEN-EPA)

Rennes University Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Malnutrition

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03555461

35RC17_3087-GEN-EPA

Details and patient eligibility

About

The main objective is to evaluate the sensitivity of the EPA® for screening for malnutrition in general medicine in adults.

Enrollment: 563 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• To be an adult,
• Consulting the principal investigator, a general practitioner in his activity of substitute doctor,
• During the inclusion period,
• Not opposed to participating in the study.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients benefiting from artificial nutrition,
• Patients with advanced dementia,
• Pregnant or postpartum women,
• Patients who do not understand or speak French,
• Patients treated with diuretics who have had a change in treatment dosage during the last 6 months,
• Patients for whom weight measurement is not possible in the office (wheelchair, disability ...),
• Patients who have already been included once,
• Patients who have had surgery for obesity,
• Major persons subject to legal protection (legal safeguards, guardianship, tutorship), persons deprived of their liberty, ...