NCT00921687

Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Guideline Adherence - A Quality Improvement Study

Chronic Kidney Disease Guideline Adherence - a Cluster Randomized Controlled Quality Improvement Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 781 (actual)
• Sponsor: Louis Stokes VA Medical Center · Federal
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is defined as kidney damage for greater than 3 months or a glomerular filtration rate less than 60 mL/min per 1.73m2 for greater than 3 months. Patients with CKD are at high risk for development of cardiovascular disease and metabolic complications. Guidelines for the care of patients with CKD have been developed by the National Kidney Foundation. Despite the wide availability of these guidelines, adherence is low. The goal of the current study is to evaluate whether a multifactorial intervention, including a CKD registry, will improve CKD guideline adherence. The hypothesis is that providers exposed to a multifactorial clinical intervention including education, academic detailing, and a CKD registry will be more likely to adhere to CKD guidelines than those only exposed to education.

Conditions

• Chronic Renal Insufficiency

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Education only	The education will consist of a lecture and distribution of a CKD reference card.
BEHAVIORAL	Multifactorial intervention	Providers in the intervention group will receive a lecture on CKD, a CKD reference card, academic detailing (residents only), and access to the CKD registry.

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-07-01
• Primary completion: 2010-06-01
• Completion: 2010-06-01
• First posted: 2009-06-16
• Last updated: 2013-05-27
• Results posted: 2013-05-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States