Valutazione All'Ingresso Del Rischio Nutrizionale in Pazienti Ricoverati Nel Reparto di Medicina Interna (AMIDO)

Azienda Sanitaria Locale di Alessandria

Status: Completed

Conditions: Malnutrition; Hospitalized Patient

Treatments: Other: Nutritional intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06496984

Asl22.MedI.22.02

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to identify the risk of malnutrition in patients admitted to the Internal Medicine departments using the MUST screening tool. Additional aspects are to evaluate malnourished patients' characteristics and effectiveness of an early nutritional programme started during hospitalization.

Full description

Malnutrition is defined as a nutritional state characterized by an excess or deficient intake of nutrients. This condition may result in a change in body composition and in organic disfunctions. Malnutrition in hospitalized patients is a condition prevalent worldwide affecting between 20% and 50% of patients at admission, with further increase expected during hospitalization. Patients hospitalized in internal medicine departments are frequently older with multimorbidity and polypharmacy, so very likely to be malnourished, but the prevalence and determinants of malnutrition remain unclear.

In AMIDO study, all patients with MUST 1 and 2 will be sent to the a dietitian. The clinician will act on the patient's characteristics by providing different dietary therapies, such as oral nutritional supports (ONS), extra nutritional cares, diet changes without supplements and artificial nutrition.

Enrollment: 268 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 99 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients admitted from 1st January 2023 to 31th May 2023 at the Internal Medicine Department of the Monsignor Giovanni Galliano Hospital in Acqui Terme of the Alessandria ASL.

Exclusion criteria

• none

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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268 participants in 1 patient group

Nutritional Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

All patients with MUST 1 and 2 will be sent to the dietitian. The clinician will act on the patient's characteristics by providing different dietary therapies, such as oral nutritional supports (ONS), extra nutritional cares, diet changes without supplements and artificial nutrition.

Treatment:

Other: Nutritional intervention