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System Interventions to Achieve Early and Equitable Transplants (STEPS) Study

NCT05014256 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1168

Last updated 2026-01-29

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Summary

This project will study how kidney care for everyone despite race can reduce racial differences in care and improve access to kidney transplants, and specifically living donor kidney transplants (LDKT), for individuals with chronic kidney disease. A study focused on equality and patient needs (called 'STEPS') will 1) create a program to identify people who may need a kidney transplant ('STEPS Surveillance') and find people in health systems who may be able to receive kidney transplants early in their care and (2) study how well the 'STEPS Outreach' program works (comprised of transplant social workers and transplant coordinators who focus on equality and patient needs) compared to usual care to improve access to kidney transplants among Black and non-Black individuals as well as to improve access to transplants for everyone.

Conditions

  • Chronic Kidney Diseases

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

STEPS Health System Outreach intervention

STEPS Transplant Social Worker Education and Outreach, STEPS Transplant Coordinator Outreach

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Northwell Health

    collaborator OTHER

  • Geisinger Clinic

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Mississippi Medical Center

    collaborator OTHER

  • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

    collaborator NIH

  • Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute

    collaborator OTHER

  • Wake Forest University Health Sciences

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ebony Boulware, M.D. · Wake Forest University Health Sciences

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-04-02
Primary Completion
2025-12-31
Completion
2025-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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