Managing Chronic Kidney Disease in Eastern North Carolina

University of North Carolina System

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Kidney Disease

Treatments: Behavioral: Chronic Kidney Disease Education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01054066

2008-317

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this program is to educate primary care physicians in four underserved clinics in eastern North Carolina about chronic kidney disease.

Full description

The Division of Nephrology within the Brody School of Medicine recently form a center to focus attention on the needs of patients with kidney disease in eastern North Carolina. It is estimated that more than 40 million Americans have or at risk for CKD. The estimate for CKD in eastern North Carolina is exacerbated by poor access to health care. The mission of the East Carolina University Center for the Study and Treatment of Kidney Disease (ECCKD) is to increase education and awareness, improve treatment and outcomes through research, and better serve patients with CKD in eastern North Carolina.

Enrollment: 1,257 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Primary care clinics in eastern North Carolina with a high penetration of chronic kidney disease, risk factors for chronic kidney disease and poverty.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)