Transplant Navigator Dissemination

Catherine Sullivan

Status: Completed

Conditions: Renal Failure Chronic Requiring Hemodialysis; Kidney Transplant

Treatments: Other: navigator

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01981603

IRB12-00660

Details and patient eligibility

About

Primary Aim A. To disseminate and determine the impact of streamlined navigation on wait listing and number of transplants. The navigator will provide tailored information and assistance to help dialysis patients complete the tasks required at each step in the transplant process. In the control group, dialysis patients will continue to get usual care from their nephrologists and dialysis facility personnel.

Hypothesis: Compared to control patients, intervention patients will be significantly more likely to be wait listed or receive a kidney transplant.

Enrollment: 1,926 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• between the ages of 18-70
• receiving in center hemodialysis

Exclusion criteria

• less than 18 years of age
• older than 70 years of age

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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1,926 participants in 2 patient groups

navigator

Experimental group

Description:

Kidney transplant recipients will serve as navigators to educate and assist other patients with the transplant process.

Treatment:

Other: navigator

usual care

No Intervention group

Description:

usual care