Study Status: Recruiting
Recruit Status: Recruiting
Study Type: Interventional
Official Title: Gastric- Versus Jejunal Feeding Tubes in Alcoholic Liver Diseases
Brief Summary:
The study is an unblinded randomized trial, designed to examine whether gastric- or jejunal feeding tubes are the most effect full to feed patients with alcoholic liver diseases and non-sufficient oral intake.
The primary outcome will be differences in nutrition intake between the groups. Secondary outcomes will be: the amount of unplanned tube discontinuations; handgrip and patients' quality of life, nausea & vomiting.
The study will include 40 patients at Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark.