Malnutrition Assessment Tools in Surgery

Evaluation of Malnutrition Risk Assessment Tools in General Surgery.

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT05393752

Acronym

MATS

Enrollment

1650

Registered

2022-05-26

Start date

2022-05-01

Completion date

2024-05-01

Last updated

2024-05-08

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Conditions

Malnutrition, Surgery--Complications

Keywords

nutrition, malnutrition, malnutrition risk tools, nutritional assessment, surgery

Brief summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the main malnutrition risk assessment tools in patients undergoing operations of general surgery.

Detailed description

This is a multi centre prospective observational study including patients undergoing major/major+ operation of general surgery. Patients will be interviewed by surgical trainees and their malnutrition risk will be assessed with the use of SGA, MUST, NRS, MNA-SF etc. Clinical variables and demographics will also be recorded in order to enable meaningful comparisons of malnutrition risk assessment tools in terms of serious postoperative complications.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to 108 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Age \>18 years * Patients undergoing elective or emergency surgery. Urgency of emergent operations is classified as follows, according to the clinical judgment of the surgeon, regarding the maximum time a patient could wait for surgery: * 3.Expedited (\>18 hours) * 2B. Urgent (6-18 hours) * 2A. Urgent (2-6 hours) * 1\. Immediate (\<2 hours) * Operations involving the gastrointestinal tract * Magnitude of operation graded by POSSUM \[17,18\]: * Major+ (examples include colonic resection abdominoperineal resection of the rectum, radical total gastrectomy, intestinal bypass, whipple resection) * Major (examples include adhesiolysis, stoma formation, small bowel resection, anterior resection, cholecystectomy and exploration of the bile duct)

Exclusion criteria

* Age \<18 years * Magnitude of operation graded by POSSUM: * Minor * Intermediate * Inability to perform nutritional assessment * Inability to provide informed consent

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
serious postoperative complications	30 days after the operation	Complications \>II according to Clavien-Dindo classification

Countries

Cyprus, Greece

Outcome results