Malnutrition Screening in Acute Aged Care

Prince of Wales Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Malnutrition

Treatments: Other: Early referral to Dietitian for assessment and nutrition support

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01179321

malscreen05/185

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of malnutrition screening and nutrition intervention on acute aged care patient outcomes.

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• admitted under a geriatrician into one of 2 acute geriatric medicine wards of the hospital

Exclusion criteria

• expected length of stay less than 72 hours
• palliative (not for active treatment)
• unable to be nutritionally assessed (non english speaking, severe dementia/confusion and non cooperative/refused)
• already seen by dietitian during current admission
• enrolled in the study during previous admission

Trial design

0 participants in 2 patient groups

Control

No Intervention group

Early nutrition intervention

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Early referral to Dietitian for assessment and nutrition support