# Essential Connections: Hospital to Community Impacting Malnutrition Outcomes in Older Adults

> **NCT05893446** · NA · NOT_YET_RECRUITING · sponsor: **Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics** · enrollment: 1120 (estimated)

## Conditions studied

- Malnutrition; Protein

## Interventions

- **DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT:** Nutrition care by RDN, medical nutrition therapy -stepped wedge cluster-randomized trial design. Everyone gets the intervention so no arms.

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT05893446
- **Lead sponsor:** Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** NOT_YET_RECRUITING
- **Start date:** 2024-01-01
- **Primary completion:** 2027-12-31
- **Final completion:** 2028-05-31
- **Target enrollment:** 1120 (ESTIMATED)
- **Last updated:** 2023-06-08

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## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05893446

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT05893446, "Essential Connections: Hospital to Community Impacting Malnutrition Outcomes in Older Adults". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-01 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT05893446. Licensed CC0.

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