NCT02085837

Healthy Transitions in Late Stage Kidney Disease

An Open Label Randomized Controlled Study to Compare the Impact of Patient Centered Nursing Services in Addition to a Nephrologist's Usual Patient Care With Usual Nephrologist's Care in Late Stage Chronic Kidney Disease Patients.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 130 (actual)
• Sponsor: Northwell Health · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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

• Chronic Kidney Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
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.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-10-01
• Primary completion: 2014-07-01
• Completion: 2016-01-01
• First posted: 2014-03-13
• Last updated: 2017-01-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States