Incremental Hemodialysis for Veterans in the First Year of Dialysis (IncHVets)
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Official title
Incremental Hemodialysis for Veterans in the First Year of Dialysis (IncHVets): A Pragmatic, Multi-Center, Randomized Controlled Trial
Brief summary
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In this pragmatic clinical trial, which will dovetail with Veterans' routine outpatient dialysis clinic visits in six VA medical centers, the investigators will study 252 Veterans with kidney disease who need to start dialysis treatment. If a Veteran is eligible for the study by making enough residual urine, he/she will have a 50% chance to be offered the usual three-times-per-week dialysis vs. twice-per-week dialysis that is gradually increased to three-times per- week over one year. The investigators will compare health-related quality of life, how long residual kidney function lasts, and other measures including safety in these two groups. By conducting this study, the investigators hope to understand 1) whether starting dialysis with less frequency is safe, effective, and can help Veterans and their care-partners to better cope with dialysis, and 2) if incremental dialysis can result in major cost benefits to the VA health care system, thus allowing more patients to stay in VA dialysis clinics vs. being transferred to outside clinics.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT05465044
- Recruitment status
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 252 participants
Conditions and interventions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Mar 31, 2023
- Primary completion
- Sep 29, 2027
- Completion
- Sep 29, 2027
- Last update posted
- Aug 19, 2026
2023 – 2027
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 8
- U.S. states
- 7
- U.S. cities
- 8
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VA Long Beach Healthcare System, Long Beach, CA | Long Beach | California | 90822 | Recruiting |
| VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, West Los Angeles, CA | West Los Angeles | California | 90073-1003 | Recruiting |
| VA Connecticut Healthcare System West Haven Campus, West Haven, CT | West Haven | Connecticut | 06516-2770 | Recruiting |
| VA Boston Healthcare System Jamaica Plain Campus, Jamaica Plain, MA | Boston | Massachusetts | 02130-4817 | Recruiting |
| John D. Dingell VA Medical Center, Detroit, MI | Detroit | Michigan | 48201-1916 | Recruiting |
| New Mexico VA Health Care System, Albuquerque, NM | Albuquerque | New Mexico | 87108-5153 | Recruiting |
| Manhattan Campus of the VA NY Harbor Healthcare System, New York, NY | New York | New York | 10010-5011 | Recruiting |
| Memphis VA Medical Center, Memphis, TN | Memphis | Tennessee | 38104-2127 | Recruiting |
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- Last update posted Aug 19, 2026 · Synced Sep 6, 2026
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