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https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03160547
Registration number
NCT03160547
Ethics application status
Date submitted
17/05/2017
Date registered
19/05/2017
Date last updated
28/03/2022
Titles & IDs
Public title
The Effect of Higher Protein Dosing in Critically Ill Patients
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Scientific title
The Effect of Higher Protein Dosing in Critically Ill Patients: A Multicenter Registry-based Randomized Trial
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The EFFORT Trial
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Trial acronym
EFFORT
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Health condition
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied:
Critical Illness
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Malnutrition
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Study type
Interventional
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Description of intervention(s) / exposure
Treatment: Devices - Test use
Treatment: Devices: Test use
Use of home ovulation test to predict ovulation
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Treatment: Devices
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Outcomes
Eligibility
Key inclusion criteria
1. =18 years old
2. Nutritionally 'high-risk' (meeting one of the below criteria)
1. Low (=25) or High BMI (=35)
2. Moderate to severe malnutrition (as defined by local assessments). We will document the means by which sites are making this determination and capture the elements of the assessment (history of weight loss, history of reduced oral intake, etc.).
3. Frailty (Clinical Frailty Scale 5 or more from proxy)
4. Sarcopenia- (SARC-F score of 4 or more from proxy)
5. From point of screening, projected duration of mechanical ventilation >4 days
3. Requiring mechanical ventilation with actual or expected total duration of mechanical ventilation >48 hours
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18
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Maximum age
No limit
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Sex
Both males and females
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Can healthy volunteers participate?
No
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Key exclusion criteria
1. >96 continuous hours of mechanical ventilation before screening
2. Expected death or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatments within 7 days from screening
3. Pregnant
4. The responsible clinician feels that the patient either needs low or high protein
5. Patient requires parenteral nutrition only and site does not have products to reach the high protein dose group.
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Study design
Purpose of the study
Other
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Allocation to intervention
Randomised controlled trial
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Open (masking not used)
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Intervention assignment
Parallel
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Recruitment
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Completed
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Date of first participant enrolment
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Actual
21/11/2017
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Actual
3/12/2021
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Sample size
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Final
1329
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Recruitment in Australia
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Funding & Sponsors
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Clinical Evaluation Research Unit at Kingston General Hospital
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Summary
Brief summary
The investigator will investigate the effects of higher protein/amino acid dosing (=2.2 g/kg/d) vs usual protein/amino acid dosing (=1.2 g/kg/d) on clinical outcomes in nutritionally high risk ill patients.
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Trial website
https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03160547
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Public notes
This record is viewable in the ANZCTR as it had previously listed Australia and/or New Zealand as a recruitment site, however these sites have since been removed
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Principal investigator
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Daren K Heyland, MD
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Clinical Evaluation Research Unit
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