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From: Effect of early and intensive nutrition care, delivered via telephone or mobile application, on quality of life in people with upper gastrointestinal cancer: study protocol of a randomised controlled trial

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Study flow chart. t1 indicates week one of the intervention; t2-t18 indicates the subsequent weeks of the active intervention; t52 indicates the final follow up week and study close. Outcome measures are described in the main text and in summary below: * primary outcome is quality adjusted life years lived determined using the EQ-5D-5 L instrument. ** secondary outcomes include quality of life using the cancer specific EORTC-C30 scale; nutritional status will be measured using the Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA) tool; changes in self-reported body weight; survival over the 12 month follow up period; and where possible waist circumference and hand grip strength using a hand dynamometer

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