NCT05014256

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

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,168 (actual)
• Sponsor: Wake Forest University Health Sciences · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	STEPS Health System Outreach intervention	STEPS Transplant Social Worker Education and Outreach, STEPS Transplant Coordinator Outreach

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-04-02
• Primary completion: 2025-12-31
• Completion: 2025-12-31
• First posted: 2021-08-20
• Last updated: 2026-01-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States