Malnutrition Assessment Tools in Surgery

University Hospital of Crete1,650 enrolled

Overview

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

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.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

1,650

Conditions

Malnutrition Surgery--Complications

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 108 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

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

Locations (2)

Department of Surgery, General Hospital of Nicosia, School of Medicine, University of Cyprus

Nicosia, Cyprus

Department of Surgery, University Hospital of Heraklion

Heraklion, Greece

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

serious postoperative complications

Complications \>II according to Clavien-Dindo classification

Time frame: 30 days after the operation

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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