An interventional study of Education and Daily weight measurement and monitoring in Chronic Kidney Disease, sponsored by Northwell Health. Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2017-01-05.
Sponsored by Northwell Health · Not applicable, Interventional, and Health services research
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.
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This study's enrollment of 130 is above the median of 74 across 2,229 interventional studies indexed under Renal Insufficiency, Chronic.
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* Additional nursing services will be provided to this group in addition to a usual care by Nephrologist. * Daily weight measurement and monitoring * Medication review * Universal dietary education * Focused advanced directive program * Countdown to fistula program
Other: Education · Other: Daily weight measurement and monitoring · Other: Universal Dietary education · Other: Medication review · Other: Focused advanced directive program · Other: Countdown to fistula program
Usual care by nephrologist. No additional nursing support services will be provide to this group.
Additional education will be provided by nurses to improve communication and reduce fragmentation of care.
Monitor weight to avoid problems related to hypervolemia.
To improve diet and health
Medication will be reviewed by nurses to detect any discrepancies to reduce medication error.
Education will be provided to increase awareness and encourage patients to have advanced directive.
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.
Hospitalization rate
Reduction in hospitalization rate in intervention group as compare to control group.
Time frame: 18 months
Improve hemodialysis access rates
Percentage of patients with AVF, AVG or catheters
Time frame: 18 months
Home dialysis
Increase choice of home dialysis as modality of treatment
Time frame: 18 months
This study is completed, as verified in Jan 2017. You cannot join it, but the record below documents what was studied.
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