Clinical Trial: Prevalence of Sarcopenia and Its Geriatric Features

Study Status: Recruiting
Recruit Status: Recruiting
Study Type: Observational

Official Title: Prevalence of Sarcopenia and Its Geriatric Features

Brief Summary:

The goal of this study is to determine the prevalence of sarcopenia in a geriatric hospital ward.

Sarcopenia is defined by a loss of muscle mass, loss of muscle strength and loss of muscle quality. It is a geriatric syndrome that, to this date, is not systematically tracked in clinical practice.

In order to detect sarcopenia, the investigators will use the operational definition proposed by the European Working Group (EWGSOP) involving the measure of three parameters, namely the speed of walking, the muscle strength and the measurement of the muscular mass.


Detailed Summary:
Sponsor: Brugmann University Hospital

Current Primary Outcome: Prevalence of sarcopenia [ Time Frame: From 10/01/2016 till 30/03/2017 (up to 15 months) ]

Sarcopenia detection will be performed at the end of each hospitalization stay in unit 83 of the CHU Brugmann Hospital (Geriatry Department)


Original Primary Outcome: Prevalence of sarcopenia [ Time Frame: From 10/01/2016 till 20/05/2016 (up to 5 months) ]

Sarcopenia detection will be performed at the end of each hospitalisation stay in unit 83 of the CHU Brugmann Hospital (Geriatry Depatment)


Current Secondary Outcome: Percentage of hospitalized patients unable to perform the sarcopenia detection test [ Time Frame: From 10/01/2016 till 30/03/2017 (up to 15 months) ]

Systematic retrospective review of patients hospitalised in the geriatric ward of the CHU Brugmann hospital during the length of the study, in order to determine the percentage of patients that could not, because of one of more exclusion criteria, perform the sarcopenia detection test.


Original Secondary Outcome:

Information By: Brugmann University Hospital

Dates:
Date Received: January 19, 2016
Date Started: January 2016
Date Completion: March 2017
Last Updated: July 25, 2016
Last Verified: July 2016