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A Dietitian-Driven Unified Nutritional Care Model (ADDUCE)

Sponsor: Gødstrup Hospital • ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT07730996

Registry updated: 2026-08-31

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Description

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn whether a new way of organising hospital nutrition care can improve outcomes for adults who are admitted to medical wards and are at risk of malnutrition. The main questions it aims to answer are: * Does having clinical dietitians take primary responsibility for nutrition care shorten hospital stay? * Does this approach improve nutritional intake, nutritional status, quality of life, and patient satisfaction? * Does this approach lower healthcare costs compared with current practice? Researchers will compare the new nutrition care model with current practice. In current practice, nursing staff are mainly responsible for nutrition screening and nutrition care planning, while clinical dietitians are involved only when requested. In the new model, clinical dietitians are part of the ward team and take primary responsibility for identifying patients at nutritional risk, planning nutritional care, and providing nutritional treatment. Participants will: * Receive either the current nutrition care approach or the new dietitian-led nutrition care approach, depending on when they are admitted to the ward * Complete questionnaires about their nutritional status, quality of life, and daily activities during their hospital stay and about 30 days later * Have information collected during their hospital stay and from their medical records, including nutritional intake, body weight, length of hospital stay, hospital readmissions, and other health outcomes The study will be conducted on three medical wards at Gødstrup Hospital. All wards will start with current practice and will gradually change to the new nutrition care model during the study period. Researchers will compare outcomes before and after the new model is introduced.

Interventions

Dietitian-driven nutritional care model (Behavioral)
Clinical dietitians are integrated into the ward team and assume primary responsibility for systematic nutritional risk screening, nutritional assessment, nutritional care planning, follow-up, and nutritional treatment. Dietitians identify patients requiring nutritional care without waiting for referral and collaborate with nursing staff and other clinicians to provide coordinated nutritional care during hospital admission.
Current practice nutritional care (Other)
Nutritional care delivered according to existing ward procedures, with nursing staff primarily responsible for nutritional risk screening and nutritional care planning and clinical dietitians involved following referral or consultation.

Eligibility criteria

For routinely collected hospital data: Inclusion Criteria: * Age 18 years or older * Admitted to a participating medical ward during the study period * First eligible admission during the study period For the prospectively enrolled cohort: Inclusion Criteria: * Age 18 years or older * Newly admitted * Expected hospital stay until at least day 3 after admission * Able to speak and understand Danish * Able to provide written informed consent Exclusion Criteria: * Terminally ill patients with short expected survival * Patients admitted to an isolation room at the time of recruitment

Conditions

Hospitalized Adult Patients Inpatient Internal Medicine Patients Haematologic Disease Pulmonary Diseases Infectious Diseases Gastroenterology Renal Diseases

Locations

Gødstrup Hospital — Herning, Denmark

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