NutriCare: Intervention on Optimizing Nutritional Status, Reducing Treatment-Related Toxicities, and Improving Quality of Life Among Vulnerable Patients with Lung Cancer NutriCare randomized 280 participants into two groups at a 1:1 ratio: an intervention grou…
Medically Tailored MealsNutrition EducationCancerIntervention Study / Evaluation
About this work
NutriCare: Intervention on Optimizing Nutritional Status, Reducing Treatment-Related Toxicities, and Improving Quality of Life Among Vulnerable Patients with Lung Cancer NutriCare randomized 280 participants into two groups at a 1:1 ratio: an intervention group and an enhanced control group. Participants assigned to the enhanced control group, called NutriTool, received printed educational nutrition materials and monthly emails. Participants assigned to the intervention group, received the full NutriCare intervention, which included a nutrition prescription, referral to registered dietitians (RDs) for remotely delivered medical nutrition therapy counseling, and home delivery of medically tailored meals along with the printed materials and monthly emails.
This project addressed critical gaps in improving the nutritional status of vulnerable patients with lung cancer at the system level by achieving the following specific aims. Project Aims Aim One The study evaluated the implementation of integrating NutriCare into oncology care by measuring: (a) participation; (b) retention; (c) patient compliance with the intervention components; and (d) compliance of the oncology healthcare team in delivering the intervention in outpatient oncology clinics. Aim Two It also assessed the efficacy of the intervention in optimizing nutritional intake, reducing food insecurity, minimizing unintentional weight loss, improving treatment compliance, reducing treatment-related toxicities, reducing h…
Why this matters
In Massachusetts Medicaid, medically tailored meals were associated with 31% fewer hospitalizations and per-person costs about $3,400 lower, and a national model projects $23.7 billion in first-year savings if meals reached all eligible adults. Trials like this build the evidence health systems and payers need.
Related people, publications, and projects, surfaced automatically.
The site’s taxonomy links every project to the researchers, evidence, and work it connects to. Nothing here is hand-curated; it’s the content graph doing the work.
Connections are drawn from shared intervention types and populations of interest, the same tagging a non-technical editor maintains from a single screen in the CMS.
