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NCT04351880
Meals MATTER: A Trial of Medically Tailored Meals 2 Weeks vs. 4 Weeks Post Hospital Discharge
NA trial testing Medically Tailored Meals in Heart Failure in 650 participants. Completed in 31 December 2021.
8 September 2021
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | Kaiser Permanente |
|---|---|
| Phase | NA |
| Status | Completed |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | randomized |
| Design | parallel |
| Masking | single |
| Primary purpose | other |
| Enrollment | 650 |
| Start date | 16 April 2020 |
| Primary completion | 8 September 2021 |
| Estimated completion | 31 December 2021 |
| Sites | 2 locations across United States |
Drugs / interventions tested
- Medically Tailored Meals
Conditions studied
- Heart Failure — all drugs for Heart Failure →
- Copd — all drugs for Copd →
- Liver Failure — all drugs for Liver Failure →
- Diabetes Mellitus — all drugs for Diabetes Mellitus →
Sponsor
Kaiser Permanente — full company profile →
Who can join
18 and older, any sex, with Heart Failure or Copd. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
The purpose of this study is to determine if medically tailored meals provided for either 2 weeks or 4 weeks (1 meal per day) to a Kaiser Permanente Colorado (KPCO) member after hospital discharge will improve their health. Medically tailored meals (MTM) are meals that are approved by a dietitian and shown to help people with certain health conditions.
Publications & conference data
1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):
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Effect of Medically Tailored Meals on Clinical Outcomes in Recently Hospitalized High-Risk Adults.
Go AS, Tan TC, Horiuchi KM, Laws D, et al · · 2022 · cited 39× · PMID 35972131 · DOI 10.1097/mlr.0000000000001759
Verify or expand the search:
- PubMed search for NCT04351880
- Europe PMC full search
- ASCO Meeting Library
- ESMO Meeting Library
- bioRxiv preprints
- medRxiv preprints
- Google Scholar
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- NCT06460272 — Nutrition Outreach and Understanding: Research In Serving Hearts Through Healthy Eating And Tailored Support · NA · completed
- NCT04866823 — Meals for Moms: Medically-Tailored Meals for Women Who Had Gestational Diabetes · NA · completed
- NCT04289181 — A Trial to Evaluate Medically Tailored Meals With Patients With Heart Failure · NA · completed
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Verify against primary sources
- ClinicalTrials.gov — authoritative US registry record
- WHO ICTRP — international registry index
- EU Clinical Trials Register
- Sponsor press releases (Google)
- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04351880 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
- Publications: Europe PMC API search by NCT ID, retrieved 10 June 2026
- Drug + disease cross-links: matched in real time against Drug Landscape's normalised drug + company + condition tables
- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by Kaiser Permanente
- Last refreshed: 17 February 2022
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