Status:
WITHDRAWN
A Trial of Oral Nutritional Supplements on Nutritional Status and Clinical Outcomes
Lead Sponsor:
Singapore General Hospital
Collaborating Sponsors:
Abbott
Conditions:
Malnutrition
Eligibility:
All Genders
65-85 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
The purpose of this study is to determine whether short-term use of oral nutritional supplements as part of the diet improves nutritional and functional status of post-hospitalization malnourished eld...
Detailed Description
Nutritional supplements have been shown to improve energy, protein, micronutrients intake, maintain or improve nutritional status in hospitalized malnourished elderly patients. However, its use in the...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- over the age of 65 years old and to be discharged from Geriatric ward
- malnourished screened by Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool
Exclusion
- are uncommunicative
- have a history of diabetes, chronic renal failure, liver disease
- are from long term residential homes like nursing homes
- incapable of taking study supplements to provide a minimum of 600 kcal/day as part of food intake
- intolerant to any of the ingredients in the study nutritional supplements
- require parenteral nutrition or enteral feeds as sole source of nutrition, e.g. patients who discharge home with tube feeding
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
September 1 2010
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
November 1 2012
Estimated Enrollment :
Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01190969
Start Date
September 1 2010
End Date
November 1 2012
Last Update
February 14 2017
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