Prospective Study to Quantify the Change in Weight at a Pneumonia (PneumoniePoids)

Grenoble Alpes University Hospital Center (CHU)

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Hospitalisation for Pneumonia

Treatments: Other: weighing

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02844010

38RC14.323

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is based on the change in weight of hospitalized patients knowing that the diagnosis of malnutrition based on the presence of at least one clinical or laboratory test which anthropometric measures (Evaluation of diagnostic protein energy malnutrition in hospitalized adults ANAES , Guidelines Department, September 2003; HAS Strategy supported in cases of wasting energy and protein in the elderly April 2007).

The goal of this study is to find the correlation between hospitalization and weight loss, significant risk factors for malnutrition in a situation of community-acquired pneumonia infection.

Enrollment: 188 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• cough
• Fever > 38.5 ° C
• Tachycardia > 100 / Min
• Chest pain lateralized
• Absence of infection high respiratory tract
• Global Impression of Severity
• Fireplace auscultatory signs (rattle crackling)

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnant women
• Dialysis patients
• Any patient with home oxygen or under a home care for BPCO stage 3 or 4
• Patients transferred from intensive care
• Patients with severe sepsis and requiring a "filler"
• Enteral or parenteral nutrition

Trial design

188 participants in 1 patient group

patients with pneumonia

Treatment:

Other: weighing