Improvement Project To Optimizing Nutrition With Higher Protein and Calorie Pediatric Tube Feeding

Société des Produits Nestlé (SPN)28 enrolled

Overview

This quality improvement project will include a practice change based on national guidelines for the nutritional management of PICU patients.

This quality improvement project will include a practice change based on national guidelines for the nutritional management of PICU patients. The primary aim of this quality improvement project is to better meet protein needs of ICU critically ill children

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

Conditions

Critically Ill Children

Interventions

Peptide-based enteral formulaOTHER

Peptide-based, higher protein and higher calorie enteral formula

Retrospective review of enteral tube feeding formulaOTHER

Enteral formula tube feeding will be retrospectively reviewed

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 1 YearMax age: 13 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Children aged 1-18 years old with enteral feeding access and anticipated to be fed for 5 days Exclusion Criteria: \-

Locations (2)

The University of Chicago, Comer Children's Hospital

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Le Bonheur Children's Hospital

Memphis, Tennessee, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Enteral formula volume

Daily total formula volume (mL) delivered

Time frame: 5 days

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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