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The purpose of this study is to apply a minimal-massive intervention (minimal recommendations to maximal number of patients) to elderly (>70 years) hospitalized patients with oropharyngeal dysphagia (OD). The intervention will consist of early screening and assessment of OD, malnutrition and oral hygiene. Patients will be given recommendations for adaptation of volume and viscosity of fluids, nutritional support and good oral hygiene practices and followed at 3, 6, 9 and 12 months after discharge. In every point of the follow-up period, patients will be re-evaluated to adjust recommendations and to verify their compliance with the treatment.

The objectives of the intervention are to have an impact on complications related to OD (avoid impaired safety alterations and improve nutritional and oral health status and reduce) and to reduce readmissions, readmissions for pneumonia and morbimortality.


Clinical Trial Description

These study aims to evaluate the application of an assistance programme to:

1. Perform a systematic screening of oropharyngeal dysphagia in older hospitalized patients (≥70 yr) admitted to internal medicine and geriatric unit of Hospital de Mataró.

2. Offer a minimal-massive treatment to older patients with OD based on, rheological adaptation of fluids (volume and viscosity), nutritional support based on traditional diet and oral hygiene treatment.

3. To give education and knowledge about the diagnose and treatment of OD to the medical staff, caregivers and relatives of the patients to improve their management.

Study design:

Experimental pre-post interventional study with 1 year follow-up and 4 control points at 3, 6, 9 and 12 months after discharge. Pre-interventional evaluations will be done on admission and at discharge; post-interventional evaluations will be performed at 3, 6, 9 and 12 months after discharge. In every evaluation point the investigators will obtain data about OD (efficacy and safety of swallow with the Volume-Viscosity Swallowing Test (V-VST)), health status of the patients (comorbidities, functionality, frailty, anthropometric measurements, illnesses and medication), nutritional status (MNA-sf and Bioimpedance), oral hygiene (dental evaluation with the Simplified Oral Hygiene Index (OHI-S)) and respiratory infections and pneumonia rates. In addition during the follow-up period the investigators will collect readmissions incidence (all readmissions, respiratory infections and pneumonia), institutionalization and death. Data collected will be compared with the previous year of the same patient and with a historical control group of untreated older patients with OD that will be matched for age, sex, comorbidities and functionality.

The intervention will consist on adaptation of fluids (volume and viscosity) in accordance with V-VST results, nutritional supplementation with traditional food (based on MNA-sf and bioimpedance results) and recommendation of good oral hygiene practices (based on dental evaluation). In every point of the follow-up period, recommendations will be given to patients.

Objectives:

- The primary objective is to launch and evaluate the effect of the minimal-massive program in hospitalized older patients with OD.

- To evaluate the effect of the intervention on the signs and symptoms of OD, nutritional status, oral hygiene, functional status and quality of life of patients included at the program at 3, 6, 9 and 12 months after discharge.

- To describe readmission rates for any reason, readmission rates for pneumonia, institutionalization rate and mortality rate in the study population compared to an historical control group of older patients with OD and no intervention. ;


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NCT number NCT02396992
Study type Interventional
Source Hospital de Mataró
Contact
Status Completed
Phase N/A
Start date March 2014
Completion date September 2015

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