A Communication Tool to Assist Older Adults Facing Dialysis Choices
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Official title
Best Case/Worst Case: A Multisite Randomized Clinical Trial of Scenario Planning for Patients With End-Stage Kidney Disease
Brief summary
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The purpose of this study is to test the effect of the "Best Case/Worse Case" (BC/WC) communication tool on receipt of palliative care and intensity of treatment at the end of life, quality of life, and quality of communication for older patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) receiving outpatient care at ten nephrology clinics. The intervention was developed and tested with acute care surgical patients at the University of Wisconsin (UW) and is now being testing to see if the intervention will work in a different setting. The intervention will be tested with 320 older adults who have end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and are receiving care from a nephrologist enrolled in the study. Randomly assigned nephrologists within each site will receive the intervention (training to use the BC/WC tool) or to be in the waitlist control, meaning that they will not be offered BC/WC training until the end of the study, when all participants have been enrolled. Participants will be on follow up with surveys and chart review for up to two years after study enrollment. Caregivers will also be invited to participate and complete surveys.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT04466865
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 407 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 60 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
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Study timeline
- Start date
- Nov 1, 2020
- Primary completion
- Nov 9, 2025
- Completion
- Feb 27, 2026
- Last update posted
- Apr 29, 2026
2020 – 2026
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 11
- U.S. states
- 10
- U.S. cities
- 10
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Colorado, Denver | Denver | Colorado | 173364 | — |
| Northwestern University | Chicago | Illinois | 60611 | — |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore | Maryland | 21287 | — |
| University of Michigan | Ann Arbor | Michigan | 48105 | — |
| Columbia University | New York | New York | 10027 | — |
| Mount Sinai School of Medicine | New York | New York | 10029 | — |
| University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh | Pennsylvania | 15260 | — |
| Department of Medicine, University of Vermont | Burlington | Vermont | 05405 | — |
| University of Washington | Seattle | Washington | 98195 | — |
| West Virginia University | Morgantown | West Virginia | 26506 | — |
| Medical College of Wisconsin | Milwaukee | Wisconsin | 53226 | — |
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- Last update posted Apr 29, 2026 · Synced Sep 7, 2026
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