Healthcare Access and Utilization Among Living Kidney Donors

St. Barnabas Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Organ Donor

Treatments: Other: $5 cash; Other: $2 cash

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01009125

SBMC-2009-40

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a mailed survey to persons who served as living kidney donors at Saint Barnabas Medical Center. The experimental component of this study (the clinical trial) is a randomized trial of two monetary incentives for the living kidney donors invited to participate in the study. Kidney donors will be randomized to receive one of two incentives in the mailed survey packet: $2 cash vs. $5 cash. The main outcome measure is the response rate to the survey.

Enrollment: 600 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Persons who donated a living donor kidney at Saint Barnabas Medical Center between January 2000 and December 2006 are eligible to participate

Exclusion criteria

• Current address outside the continental United States
• Persons who donated a living donor kidney prior to January 2000 or after December 2006
• Persons who indicated they no longer wished to be contacted by Saint Barnabas Medical Center

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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600 participants in 2 patient groups

$2 cash incentive

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: $2 cash

$5 cash incentive

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: $5 cash