Evaluation of a Virtual Home Dialysis Mentoring Program (Home)

End Stage Renal Disease on Dialysis Clinical Trial

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Official title:

Evaluation of a Virtual Home Dialysis Mentoring Program (Home)

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04806126
• Other study ID #: SP132_Home
• Status: Completed
• Start date: March 19, 2021
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: May 2022
• Source: Satellite Healthcare
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The Investigator plans to establish a virtual platform for home dialysis physician mentoring with the intent to:

1. Formulate a practical, interactive, virtual curriculum in home dialysis

2. Provide dedicated video conferences in home dialysis mentorship

3. Measure knowledge awareness and attitudes towards home dialysis

Description:

Home-based kidney replacement therapy offers enhanced quality of life and clinical advantages compared to conventional in-center hemodialysis. Globally, there is an increased awareness of home dialysis. However, there is a lack of mentoring centers to support new programs and/or nephrologists to initiate and grow home dialysis.1, 2 Critical prerequisites for a successful mentoring relationship include:

• Established excellence in home dialysis in the mentor center

• Willingness from both mentors and mentees to participate in the program

• Engaging, high quality clinical content, including sharing of best practices

• Lack of system barriers to establish home dialysis

• Dedicated metrics to measure success of the program

The Investigator plans to establish a virtual platform with the intent to:

1. Formulate a practical, interactive, virtual curriculum in home dialysis

2. Provide dedicated video conferences in home dialysis mentorship

3. Measure knowledge awareness and attitudes towards home dialysis

The Investigator hypothesizes that an effective, sustained mentorship program will increase knowledge and awareness of home dialysis and will ultimately enhance overall home dialysis adoption.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 40
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: December 31, 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Credentialed physicians at Satellite Healthcare

• Nephrology fellows at nephrology training program affiliated with Satellite Healthcare credentialed physician

Exclusion Criteria:

• Any person who does not meet the inclusion criteria

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• End Stage Renal Disease on Dialysis
• Home Dialysis
• Kidney Failure, Chronic

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Satellite Healthcare, Inc.	San Jose	California

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Satellite Healthcare

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

References & Publications (5)

Becevic M, Mutrux R, Edison K. Show-Me ECHO: Complex Disease Care Capacity-Building Telehealth Program. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2016;226:233-6. — View Citation

King AM, Gottlieb M, Mitzman J, Dulani T, Schulte SJ, Way DP. Flipping the Classroom in Graduate Medical Education: A Systematic Review. J Grad Med Educ. 2019 Feb;11(1):18-29. doi: 10.4300/JGME-D-18-00350.2. — View Citation

Lewiecki EM, Rochelle R, Bouchonville MF 2nd, Chafey DH, Olenginski TP, Arora S. Leveraging Scarce Resources With Bone Health TeleECHO to Improve the Care of Osteoporosis. J Endocr Soc. 2017 Nov 6;1(12):1428-1434. doi: 10.1210/js.2017-00361. eCollection 2017 Dec 1. — View Citation

Liebman SE, Moore CA, Monk RD, Rizvi MS. What Are We Doing? A Survey of United States Nephrology Fellowship Program Directors. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2017 Mar 7;12(3):518-523. doi: 10.2215/CJN.06530616. Epub 2016 Dec 5. — View Citation

Mehrotra R, Blake P, Berman N, Nolph KD. An analysis of dialysis training in the United States and Canada. Am J Kidney Dis. 2002 Jul;40(1):152-60. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	The change in participants' self-reported knowledge awareness.	The change in participants' self-reported knowledge awareness (as assessed by self- reported expertise rating).	through study completion, an average of 1 year
Primary	The change in participants' perception of home dialysis adoption	The change in participants' perception of home dialysis adoption as assessed by the percentage of home dialysis patients relative to conventional in-center hemodialysis at baseline versus the end of the study.	through study completion, an average of 1 year
Secondary	Number of registered participants	Number of physicians who register for the program	through study completion, an average of 1 year
Secondary	Number of participants attending each session	Number of physicians who participate in each mentoring Session	through study completion, an average of 1 year
Secondary	Change in the percentage of patients using home dialysis	Change between baseline and end of study in the number of home dialysis patients	through study completion, an average of 1 year