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Feeding tube showdown: are expensive new tubes worth it?

NCT ID NCT04030871

Knowledge-focused Sponsor: Ohio State University Source: ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

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First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026

Summary

This study compared two types of feeding tubes used for long-term nutrition: standard balloon tubes and newer capsule dome tubes. The goal was to see if the more expensive capsule tubes last longer and are more cost-effective. The study planned to enroll adults needing tube feeding for over a year, but was stopped early with only 7 participants.

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Study facts

What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.

Phase

Not a phased trial

Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.

Participants

7 people

The number who actually took part.

Started

Oct 2019

Finished

Dec 2023

Lead sponsor

Other sponsor

The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.

Who can take part

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Ages

18 to 75 years

Sex

Anyone

Healthy volunteers

Not accepted

This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.

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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: 1. Signed an IRB-approved informed consent form for the study. 2. Adults (18-75 years of age) 3. Requirement of long term enteral tube feeding (\> to 12 months) and are due for a change of their initial or prior replacement bolus Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) tube. 4. Ability to consent for the procedure and study. 5. Subjects must be able to communicate in english via telephone and understand the assessment checklists. 6. Expected to survive 12 months. Exclusion Criteria The following subjects will not be eligible for inclusion in the study: 1. Enteral feeding is not necessary for at least 12 months, 2. A medical condition that makes it impossible for them to communicate via telephone 3. Subjects requiring feeding into the jejunum via a combined gastroenterostomy-jejunostomy tube 4. Subjects who require endoscopic replacement of their current gastrostomy tube. 5. Impaired cognition, inability to provide assessment feedback by telephone. 6. Subjects not expected to survive \> 12 months

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Long term enteral tube feeding

Contacts and locations

Locations

  • Endoscopy Doan

    Columbus, Ohio, 43212, United States