Prevalence of Malnutrition and/or Sarcopenia at Hospital Admission (MASS)

The University of Texas System (UT)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Malnutrition; Sarcopenia

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02990520

14-0527

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine the prevalence of malnutrition and/or sarcopenia at admission to the hospital in older adults.

Full description

The primary outcome of this study is to determine the prevalence of malnutrition and/or sarcopenia at admission to the hospital in older adults. The secondary outcome is to assess the relationship between malnutrition/sarcopenia status and length of stay, comorbidity load, polypharmacy, and 30-day readmission.

Enrollment: 190 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Admitted to the UTMB ACE unit
• Aged 65 years or older
• Able to consent to participate in study (alert and oriented x3)

Exclusion criteria

• Because this study aims to determine prevalence of malnutrition and/or sarcopenia at admission to the hospital, patients will be excluded if study measures are not able to be taken within 72 hours of admission.