More Frequent Dialysis (>3 Treatments Per Week) (MFD)

S

Satellite Healthcare

Status

Completed

Conditions

Chronic Kidney Disease

End Stage Renal Disease

Treatments

Procedure: Conventional Hemodialysis

Procedure: More frequent hemodialysis

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00575497

SR002MFD

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study compares the benefits of short daily hemodialysis six days a week, nocturnal (night time) hemodialysis six days a week, every other day and every other night hemodialysis to traditional three days a week hemodialysis.The hypothesis is that increasing hemodialysis treatment time and/or frequency will improve outcomes.

Enrollment

46 patients

Sex

All

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Stable vascular access, i.e., lack of needling difficulties and stable flow rates. Accesses will include fistulae, grafts, catheters and ports.
18 years of age.
History of compliance with a dialysis treatment schedule, or if a new patient, express a willingness to be compliant with a treatment schedule.
Plan to continue care and follow-up at the investigational site.
Able to sign the informed consent and other relevant documents.

Exclusion criteria

History of poor compliance with thrice (or twice) weekly dialysis schedules as manifested by more than three unexplained missed treatments in the past six (6) months.
Pregnancy.
Intravenous drug abuser.
Expects to receive a transplant or transfer to another facility within six months of entering the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Non-Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

46 participants in 7 patient groups

A

Experimental group

Description:

Six Day per week short daily hemodialysis

Treatment:

Procedure: More frequent hemodialysis

B

Experimental group

Description:

Six nights per week nocturnal hemodialysis

Treatment:

Procedure: More frequent hemodialysis

C

Experimental group

Description:

Every other day short daily hemodialysis

Treatment:

Procedure: More frequent hemodialysis

D

Experimental group

Description:

Every other night hemodialysis

Treatment:

Procedure: More frequent hemodialysis

E

Experimental group

Description:

5 days per week short daily hemodialysis

Treatment:

Procedure: More frequent hemodialysis

F

Experimental group

Description:

5 nights per week hemodialysis

Treatment:

Procedure: More frequent hemodialysis

G

Active Comparator group

Description:

Conventional three time per week short daily hemodialysis

Treatment:

Procedure: Conventional Hemodialysis

Trial contacts and locations

2

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