A Study of Acute Kidney Injury in Care Transitions

Mayo Clinic

Status: Completed

Conditions: Acute Kidney Injury

Treatments: Behavioral: AKI in Care Transitions (ACT) program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT05184894

21-011055

R03HS028060-01 (U.S. AHRQ Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This research is being done to develop materials and processes that will help facilitate education and kidney care coordination for AKI survivors.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Participants will be recruited from those identified by a developed electronic health record list of patients with stage III AKI (severe) during a hospitalization based on serum creatinine rise or urine output decline from Olmsted County.

Exclusion criteria

• Dementia.
• Non-English speaking.
• Expected to be dismissed to a skilled nursing facility or hospice at discharge.
• Expected to need dialysis at discharge.
• Primary Care Transitions Program enrollment.
• Transplant recipients within 100 days of transplant.
• Can only have one time enrollment.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

AKI in Care Transitions (ACT) Group

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects diagnosed with Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) during their hospital stay will participate in the ACT program which provides standardized education and assists with coordination of follow up care after hospital stay.

Treatment:

Behavioral: AKI in Care Transitions (ACT) program

Usual Care Group

No Intervention group

Description:

Subjects diagnosed with Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) during their hospital stay will receive standard of care from their inpatient and outpatient care teams.