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Nutritional Intervention for Geriatric Hip Fracture Patients

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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

126 participants in 2 patient groups

Control
No Intervention group
Nutritional Supplementation
Experimental group
Treatment:
Dietary Supplement: Protein supplementation

Trial contacts and locations

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