Sixteen Years Trends in Reported Undernutrition in Switzerland

Vaud University Hospital Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Malnutrition; Epidemiology

Treatments: Other: No intervention

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03239093

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Details and patient eligibility

About

To assess 16-year trends in undernutrition reporting and management in Switzerland

Full description

Analysis of data from the Swiss hospital discharge databases between 1998 and 2014. The database was provided by the Swiss federal office of statistics (http://www.bfs.admin.ch); it covers 98% of public and private hospitals within Switzerland and includes all stays for each hospital.

Enrollment: 13,297,188 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• adult patients (aged ≥20 years), length of hospital stay >1 day, not having any ICD-10 codes related to pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium (i.e. ICD-10 codes beginning with letter "O") as main diagnosis, and having complete demographic data and information on main diagnosis and mortality

Exclusion criteria