Dietitian study in ICU pulled before it started
NCT ID NCT01749488
First seen Jun 25, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study planned to see if having a dietitian help follow nutrition guidelines improves calorie intake for ICU patients. It was withdrawn before enrolling anyone, so no results are available. The goal was to measure energy balance over seven days.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- designated dietitian
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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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.
- Start date
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Oct 2015
- Expected to finish
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Apr 2018
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
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Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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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: * The patient must be insured or beneficiary of a health insurance plan * Patients hospitalized in intensive care for an expected period greater than 72 hours, and for whom sufficient eating after 72 hours of hospitalization is deemed unlikely upon admission. * Patients receiving mechanical ventilation and having at least one organ failure other than respiratory failure, defined by a SOFA score greater than 2. Exclusion Criteria: * The patient is under judicial protection * The patient (or his/her legal representative or "trusted-person") indicates they do not wish to participate in the study * It is impossible to correctly inform either the patient or his/her "trusted person" * The patient is participating in another study, or is in an exclusion period determined by another study * Moribund patients or those for whom death appears imminent (within 24 hours) * Survival to Day 28 unlikely due to uncontrollable comorbidities * Patients with advanced directives issued expressing the wish to not be resuscitated
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