Sixteen Years Trends in Reported Undernutrition in Switzerland

Malnutrition Clinical Trial

Official title:

Sixteen Years Trends in Reported Undernutrition in Switzerland

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03239093
• Other study ID #: 1
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: August 1, 2017
• Last updated: August 1, 2017
• Start date: January 1, 2017
• Est. completion date: July 29, 2017

Study information

• Verified date: August 2017
• Source: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

To assess 16-year trends in undernutrition reporting and management in Switzerland

Description:

Analysis of data from the Swiss hospital discharge databases between 1998 and 2014. The database was provided by the Swiss federal office of statistics (http://www.bfs.admin.ch); it covers 98% of public and private hospitals within Switzerland and includes all stays for each hospital.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 13297188
• Est. completion date: July 29, 2017
• Est. primary completion date: July 29, 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 20 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• adult patients (aged =20 years), length of hospital stay >1 day, not having any ICD-10 codes related to pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium (i.e. ICD-10 codes beginning with letter "O") as main diagnosis, and having complete demographic data and information on main diagnosis and mortality

Exclusion Criteria:

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Epidemiology
• Malnutrition

Intervention

Other:
• No intervention
Observational study using official data from the Federal Office of Statistics

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Length of stay	Overall length of hospital stay, in days	1998-2014
Other	In-hospital mortality	Hospital mortality (code=deceased)	1998-2014
Other	Nosocomial infection	ICD-10 codes T80.2 (Infections following infusion, transfusion and therapeutic injection); T82.6 (Infection and inflammatory reaction due to cardiac valve prosthesis); T82.7 (Infection and inflammatory reaction due to other cardiac and vascular devices, implants and grafts); T83.5 (Infection and inflammatory reaction due to prosthetic device, implant and graft in urinary system); T83.6 (Infection and inflammatory reaction due to prosthetic device, implant and graft in genital tract); T84.5 (Infection and inflammatory reaction due to internal joint prosthesis); T84.6 (Infection and inflammatory reaction due to internal fixation device [any site]); T84.7 (Infection and inflammatory reaction due to other internal orthopaedic prosthetic devices, implants and grafts); T85.7 (Infection and inflammatory reaction due to other internal prosthetic devices, implants and grafts); A04.7 (Clostridium difficile infection);	1998-2014
Primary	undernutrition reporting	ICD-10 codes E12 (undernutrition-related diabetes mellitus), E40 (kwashiorkor), E41 (nutritional marasmus), E42 (marasmic kwashiorkor), E43 (unspecified severe protein-energy undernutrition), E44 (protein-energy undernutrition of moderate and mild degree), E46 (unspecified protein-energy undernutrition), R63 (R63.0: Anorexia, R63.3: feeding difficulties and mismanagement; R63.4: abnormal weight loss and R63.6: Insufficient intake of food and water due to self-neglect), and R64 (cachexia).	1998-2014
Secondary	nutritional management	CHOP codes related to enteral nutrition (96.6 and 96.35), parenteral nutrition (99.15), nutritional advice and therapy (89.0A.30, 89.0A.31 or 89.0A.32, depending on year) and multimodal nutritional therapy (89.0A.4*, where *=any number).	1998-2014