Healthcare Access and Utilization Among Living Kidney Donors

Organ Donor Clinical Trial

Official title: Randomized Trial of Financial Incentives to Increase Response Rates to a Mailed Survey of Healthcare Access and Utilization Among Living Kidney Donors

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

This is a mailed survey to persons who served as living kidney donors at Saint Barnabas Medical Center. The experimental component of this study (the clinical trial) is a randomized trial of two monetary incentives for the living kidney donors invited to participate in the study. Kidney donors will be randomized to receive one of two incentives in the mailed survey packet: $2 cash vs. $5 cash. The main outcome measure is the response rate to the survey.

Clinical Trial Description

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Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Health Services Research

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Organ Donor

• NCT number: NCT01009125
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: St. Barnabas Medical Center
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 2010
• Completion date: April 2010