Malnutrition in Chinese Hospitalized Patients and Optimizing the Usage of Nutritional Screening Tools

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Malnutrition

Treatments: Other: no intervention

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02241746

XHEC-C-2014-088

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is:

• to diagnose malnutrition in Chinese hospitalized patients with four nutritional screening tools: mini-nutritional assessment - short form, subjective global assessment, malnutrition universal screening tool and nutritional risk screening 2002.
• to optimize the usage of nutritional screening tools based on data-mining methods.

Enrollment: 856 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Ages≥18; admitted to hospital≥24h and did not receive operation until 8.am next day.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who were pregnant or breast-feeding, and those who could not be interviewed or provide informed consent were excluded.

Trial design

856 participants in 1 patient group

malnutrition

Treatment:

Other: no intervention