Limited Long Term Survival in Patients After In-hospital Intestinal Failure Requiring Total Parenteral Nutrition

Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc

Status: Completed

Conditions: Nutrition Disorders

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02189993

TPN-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine what the long term survival is after in hospital use of total parenteral nutrition due to intestinal failure.

Earlier studies only followed patients for a maximum of 6 months or included only very specific patients. We were interested in all patients in our hospital and followed them for up to 2 years.

Full description

Extensive description is not desired

Enrollment: 437 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• all consecutive patients on TPN

Exclusion criteria

• patients from the Pediatric and Haematological Departments

Trial design

437 participants in 1 patient group

Total Parenteral Nutrition Use

Description:

The cohort investigated consisted of patients with intestinal failure requiring total parenteral nutrition use.