Trial Outcomes & Findings for Creating a Patient-centered Report Card for Solid Organ Transplant Candidates (NCT NCT03610555)

Adults (age 18+) were recruited to participate from the waiting list or in the process of being evaluated for deceased donor kidney transplants at two urban transplant programs in the Midwest. Patients were approached by mail with follow-up via a phone call with an institutional review board-approved script for attaining consent and conducting the intervention.

A total of (n=6) were excluded from the study. Reasons for exclusion include the following: Not meeting exclusion criteria (n=1) and excluded since part of vanguard study (n=5).

Creating a Patient-centered Report Card for Solid Organ Transplant Candidates

The primary outcome is the comprehension of the report card. To assess comprehension, the correct response to the following question will be assessed, "Which transplant program within a prespecified area had the most recipients over 70 years of age; and which programs had the most recipients with BMI \>40"

Perceived value of information will be determined via patient responses to the following question, "How useful is the information in the report card in helping you choose a transplant center for you or your family?" Response choices to the questions will be based on a 5-point Likert-type scale (1 = extremely useful to 5 = not useful at all; score 1 indicates the better outcome and score 5 indicates worse outcome).

We measured satisfaction with decision-making and decisional conflict using the Ottawa Decisional Conflict Scale (DCS). Participants were asked to answer four items to assess satisfaction with decision making. These four items are: a) summed; b) divided by 4; and c) multiplied by 25. Scores ranges from 0 \[great satisfaction\] to 100 \[lower satisfaction\].