Integrating Conservative Kidney Management Options and Advance Care Planning Into a Pre-Dialysis Educational Program

University of Pennsylvania

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Chronic Kidney Diseases; Advance Care Planning; Conservative Kidney Management

Treatments: Other: ESRD education + conservative kidney management and ACP education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03229811

831500

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goals of this work will be to evaluate the preliminary efficacy of a comprehensive pre-dialysis education program on increased knowledge of conservative kidney management and advance care planning among patients with advanced CKD.

Full description

This intervention will be randomized among patients with advanced chronic kidney disease.

Enrollment: 4 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Stage 4 or 5 CKD (defined by the CKD-EPI estimation of GFR < 30 ml/min/1.73m2)
• Age 65 years or greater or frail
• self-reported Black or White race

Exclusion criteria

• History of dementia
• History of legal blindness
• Listed for kidney transplantation

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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4 participants in 2 patient groups

Standard pre-dialysis education

No Intervention group

Description:

Standard pre-dialysis options education including hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, and kidney transplantation

ESRD education + ACP

Active Comparator group

Description:

Standard ESRD education + conservative kidney management and advance care planning education

Treatment:

Other: ESRD education + conservative kidney management and ACP education