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Healthy Transitions in Late Stage Kidney Disease

NCT02085837 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 130

Last updated 2017-01-05

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Summary

Improve health and outcome for people with late stage chronic kidney disease by providing patient centered nursing services in addition to a Nephrologist's routine patient care.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Education

Additional education will be provided by nurses to improve communication and reduce fragmentation of care.

OTHER

Daily weight measurement and monitoring

Monitor weight to avoid problems related to hypervolemia.

OTHER

Universal Dietary education

To improve diet and health

OTHER

Medication review

Medication will be reviewed by nurses to detect any discrepancies to reduce medication error.

OTHER

Focused advanced directive program

Education will be provided to increase awareness and encourage patients to have advanced directive.

OTHER

Countdown to fistula program

To reduce the number of patients starting dialysis with catheter in place, comprehensive stepwise intervention will be provided by nurses to ensure arterio-venous (AV) fistula placement in all appropriate patients, with coordinated follow up and failure recovery processes.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Northwell Health

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Steven Fishbane, MD · Northwell Health

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-10-31
Primary Completion
2014-07-31
Completion
2016-01-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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