Nutritional Intervention for Geriatric Hip Fracture Patients

Kowloon Hospital, Hong Kong

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hip Fractures

Treatments: Dietary Supplement: Protein supplementation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01088139

KC/KE-08-0118/ER3

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a randomized controlled, observer blinded trial to study the beneficial effect of nutritional supplementation in elderly Hong Kong patients after hip fracture surgery during rehabilitation and at 4 weeks follow up. The control group will receive Calcium and Vitamin D supplementation whereas the intervention group will receive a moderately high dose protein nutritional supplementation in addition to Vitamin D and Calcium. Both groups undergo the same rehabilitation program and dietary counseling before discharge. They are followed up 4 weeks after discharge or completion of supplementation. The outcome parameters are nutritional parameters and rehabilitation outcomes.

Enrollment: 126 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 60 years or older
• Recent low impact osteoporotic fracture of the proximal femur surgically repaired within 4 weeks before recruitment

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who require tube feeding
• Patients in unstable medical condition
• Body mass index (BMI) ≧ 25
• Malignancy
• Conditions with contraindication for high protein diet
• Mentally incapacitated and inability to communicate or understand the consent.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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126 participants in 2 patient groups

Control

No Intervention group

Nutritional Supplementation

Experimental group

Treatment:

Dietary Supplement: Protein supplementation