Follow-up Home Visits With Nutrition (OHE)

University of Copenhagen

Status: Completed

Conditions: Malnutrition

Treatments: Dietary Supplement: individual nutritional therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01249716

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Details and patient eligibility

About

To assess the effect on geriatric patients of follow-up home visit including nutrition.

The hypothesis is that this can prevent hospital readmissions, and has a positive impact on functional abilities and quality of life

Full description

Before and after the intervention the participants nutritional status, hand grip strength, functional abilities, well-being, dietary intake, level of tiredness,and activities of daily living will be assessed

Enrollment: 152 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Geriatric patients in nutritional risk

Exclusion criteria

• Dementia
• Expected readmissions
• Terminal disease
• Non-Danish speaking

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind