Quality Improvement Program (QIP) to Reduce 30-Day Readmission in Malnourished Hospitalized Patients

Abbott

Status

Terminated

Conditions

Malnutrition

Treatments

Other: ONS Standard Feeding

Other: ONS QIP

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Industry

Identifiers

NCT02262429

HA13

Details and patient eligibility

About

Newly admitted patients will be screened for risk of malnutrition. Patients will receive either the feeding protocol or current oral nutrition supplement (ONS) practice, pending location. Patients will continue the nutrition plan taking the supplement post discharge. Study team will follow-up with telephone calls to help support post-discharge ONS compliance. Quality and service utilization data will be gathered for analysis.

Enrollment

2,386 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patient is ≥ 18 years of age.
Patient is screened for malnutrition with an MST score ≥ 2 (see Appendix C).
Patient has length of stay of hospital stay > 2 days.
Patient is able to consume foods and beverages orally.
Patient receives Ensure, Nepro or Glucerna during the course of his or her hospital stay in connection with the QIP.

Exclusion criteria

Patient is pregnant.
Patient is intubated, receiving tube feeding or parenteral nutrition.
Patient unable to provide HIPAA authorization and informed consent.
Patient is discharged to hospice care.
Patient has a condition that would preclude ingestion / absorption of the oral nutritional supplements, including allergic response to any ONS ingredient.
Patient has severe dementia or delirium, brain metastases, eating disorder, history of significant neurological or psychiatric disorder.
Patient has stated an allergy or intolerance to any of the ingredients in the study products.