Clinical trial NCT04119570: CKD Report Card Pilot Trial
Official title: Pilot and Trial of the Chronic Kidney Disease Report Card
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: CKD
Lead sponsor: University of Chicago
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2019-10-08
Enrollment: 50
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 70
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: SEQUENTIAL
Intervention model description: During the first half of the study, participants will be surveyed and observed without the intervention. During the second half, participants will be surveyed and observed with the intervention (CKD Report Card)
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: The investigators will study physician-patient communication at the UCMC nephrology fellow clinic and to test an intervention, the CKD Report Card, to improve that communication and patient knowledge of CKD.

Detailed description: The goals of the study are to 1) characterize the effectiveness and patient-centeredness of patient-physician interaction during a nephrology clinic visit both with and without use of the CKD Report Card, and 2) to determine which physician and patient characteristics are associated with effective and patient centered communication. There will be block enrollment. For Nephrology physicians who agreed to participate will complete a baseline questionnaire. Research assistants will approach patients of participating providers in clinic waiting rooms, with the goal of enrolling patients for each provider For half of the study, investigators will enroll patients in the study and observe patient-physician communication and use a survey measure CKD knowledge pre-visit and post-visit. For the second half of the study, investigators will give participants the CKD Report Card, an investigator-developed handout, to use during the clinic visit. Investigators will observe patient-physician communication and use a survey to measure CKD knowledge pre-visit and post-visit. For both groups, eligible participants will give informed consent and will complete a baseline questionnaire; research assistants will place a digital audio-recording device in the examination room to record the patient-provider encounter. Following the medical encounter, research assistants will administered an interview with patients, assessing demographic, social, and behavioral characteristics, as well as their experience of care and ratings of provider communication.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* English-speaking adult patients (age 18 or older)
* Identified in the medical record as non-Hispanic Black or non- Hispanic White
* seen in University of Chicago nephrology clinic with a participating nephrologist

Exclusion Criteria:

* not able to communicate in English
* lacking ability to consent to study
* does not identify as non-Hispanic Black or non-Hispanic
* without chronic kidney disease

Primary outcomes:
measure: CKD Knowledge
timeFrame: Change in CKD Knowledge from Baseline (pre-visit) to CKD Knowledge immediately post clinic visit (within 15-100 minutes post-clinic visit)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: patient-physician interaction
timeFrame: immediately post-nephrology clinic visit (on day of enrollment, within 15-100 minutes post-clinic visit)
measure: communication assessment
timeFrame: immediately post-nephrology clinic visit (on day of enrollment, within 15-100 minutes post-clinic visit)
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Chicago
country: United States
facility: University of Chicago Medical Center
state: Illinois
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Chicago
name: Milda R. Saunders, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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