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Development of a Decision Support System to Prevent and Treat Disease-related Malnutrition

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University of Oslo (UIO)

Status

Completed

Conditions

Malnutrition

Treatments

Device: MyFood

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03412695
2016/1464

Details and patient eligibility

About

The prevalence of disease-related malnutrition among hospitalized patients is 30-50%. There is a lack of tools to follow up the nutritional treatment of these patients. The investigators develop the decision support system "MyFood" which can be used to assess patients' dietary intake, evaluate intake against individual needs, and propose nutrition related measures and an individual nutrition plan for each patient. The investigators will study the clinical effects of using MyFood among hospitalized patients. In addition the implementation of the tool among healthcare workers will be studied.

Full description

The prevalence of disease-related malnutrition among hospitalized patients is 30-50%. Disease-related malnutrition increase the morbidity and mortality among patients and leads to longer length of stay. There is a lack of tools to follow up the nutritional treatment of patients at nutritional risk. The decision support system "MyFood" is developed in the project with the purpose to prevent and treat disease-related malnutrition. MyFood includes 4 modules: 1) A function to register patient needs and symptoms, 2) Dietary assessment function, 3) Automatic evaluation of dietary intake compared to individual needs, 4) Feedback, including a report on intake of energy, protein, and liquids compared to individual needs, and recommendations for nutritional measures and an individual nutrition plan.

Clinical effects of using MyFood among hospitalized patients will be studied in a randomized controlled trial. In addition, the implementation of the tool among nurses and other healthcare workers will be explored.

Enrollment

100 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • <72 hours expected hospital stay
  • Terminal patients
  • Pregnant
  • Psychiatric patients
  • Patients who cannot read the Norwegian Language
  • Patients diagnosed with: sickle cell anemia, haemophilia, or deep vein thrombosis

Trial design

Primary purpose

Prevention

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

100 participants in 2 patient groups

Arm A
Experimental group
Description:
Use of the MyFood tool among patients and nurses (intervention group)
Treatment:
Device: MyFood
Arm B
No Intervention group
Description:
No intervention. Regular hospital routines

Trial contacts and locations

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