An observational study in Malnutrition, Gastroenterological Cancer and Surgical Procedures, Operative, sponsored by Peking Union Medical College Hospital. Status unknown at 1 site in China. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 80 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2009-10-01.
Sponsored by Peking Union Medical College Hospital · Observational
Undernutrition is a state marked by energy and/or protein intake deficiency or mal-absorption, and is often described as protein energy malnutrition (PEM). Malnutrition is common in hospitalized patients worldwide. The prevalence of malnutrition in hospitalized patients range from 20% - 50%, depends on the varieties of diseases, health system, population and assessment tools. It is well documented in Western countries that malnutrition affects clinical outcomes negatively. Compared with well-nourished patients, patients with malnutrition stay longer in hospitals and related cost is significantly higher.
There is increasing evidence which indicates that appropriate nutrition support (e.g., standardized nutrition screening procedures, delivering nutrients with appropriate path, etc) may improve clinical outcome on malnutrition, along with cost saving.
To date, there is no study to document specifically the impact of malnutrition and related nutrition support on the health economics in China. Considering China now is on its way to establish public health security system and a diagnosis-related grouping system, the understanding of the cost effectiveness of nutrition support under the current clinical conditions is crucial.
This study aims to investigate the prevalence of perioperational malnutrition in gastroenterological cancer patient, the nutrition support status and related health economic effects.
1,588 studies on the registry are indexed under Malnutrition; 237 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 200 is close to the median of 203 across 388 observational studies indexed under Malnutrition.
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Hospitalization patient in a teaching hospital
Exclusion Criteria:
The patients with undernutrition
Patient that well nourished and without undernutrition
Cost
Time frame: 30 days after operation
Mortality
Time frame: 30 days after operation
Infectious morbidity
Time frame: 30 days after operation
Length of hospitalization
Time frame: 30 days after operation
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