Nutritional Support on Outcomes and Cost-effectiveness for Patients at Risk

ConditionMalnutrition
Trial statusNot yet recruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18-90
SponsorPeking Union Medical College

About this trial

The impact of nutritional support for the patients at nutritional risk on clinical outcomes and cost-effectiveness.

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

patients be in hospital overnight

diagnoses according to the protocol of cohort study for cost effectiveness

Disqualifiers

patients admitting from emergency department

patients who undergone operation before second morning of hospitalization

patients who dose not give Informed Consents

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

  • nutritional support

    Dietary supplement

    nutritional support

Treatment groups

400 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups
Group A: Nutritional support therapy groupExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group B: Routine hospital management groupNo intervention 0 interventions

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

The incidence of Infectious complication

A infectious complication was defined as as the presence of recognized pathogens in body tissues that normally are sterile, confirmed by the results of culture and supported by clinical, radiologic or hematologic evidence of infection

Time frame
during the hospital stay

Secondary outcomes

1

Total cost amount

The total cost amount was considered to contain 3 items in our study. The first item was the cost of nutrition support, including nutrition solutions, nursing, physician, and other staff supervision of nutrition support preparation, administration, and catheter placement and maintenance. The second item was the cost of the infectious complication.The third item was 'other costs' associated with the hospital admission, calculated from the total costs from which the cost of nutrition support and infectious complications were subtracted.

Time frame
during the hospital stay

Other outcomes

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