Dietitian-led nutrition care in hospital wards

Is this trial a fit for you?

A plain-English reading of the study's rules. Only the study team can confirm whether you qualify.

What this trial studies

The ADDUCE trial compares a dietitian-driven nutritional care model with current practice in three medical wards at a Danish hospital. In the intervention, clinical dietitians are embedded in the ward team and take primary responsibility for screening for nutritional risk, assessing patients, planning nutrition care, and delivering individualized treatment in collaboration with nurses. The study uses a stepped-wedge cluster-randomised design to switch wards from standard care to the dietitian-led model. Outcomes include length of stay, nutritional intake and status, quality of life, patient satisfaction, and healthcare costs. The trial addresses disease-related malnutrition common in hospitalized adults and aims to determine if the new model improves clinical and economic outcomes.

Why it matters

Who can join: the full rules

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

Where it's running

• Gødstrup Hospital
  Herning, Denmark Recruiting

Study contacts

• Principal investigator: Marianne Boll Kristensen, RD, PhD — Department of Nutrition, Gødstrup Hospital
• Study coordinator: Marianne Boll Kristensen, RD, PhD
• Email: maboki@rm.dk
• Phone: +4581441015

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How to take part

1. Review the eligibility criteria above with your treating physician.
2. Check the official listing on ClinicalTrials.gov for the latest contact details and recruitment status.
3. Contact the study coordinator or principal investigator to ask for pre-screening. Pre-screening is free and never obligates you to enroll.