Study protocol: follow-up home visits with nutrition: a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Geriatric patients are at high risk of re-admission after discharge. Pre-existing nutritional risk amongst these patients is of primary concern, with former nutritional intervention studies being largely ineffective. None of these studies has included individual dietary counselling by a registered dietician or has considered competing medical conditions in the participants. A former randomised study has shown that comprehensive discharge follow-up in geriatric patients homes by general practitioners and district nurses was effective in reducing the re-admission risk in the intervention group compared to the control group. That study did not include a nutritional intervention. The purpose of this study is to assess the combined benefits of an intervention consisting of di

SUBMITTER: Beck AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3306756 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature