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Pragmatic Trials in Maintenance Dialysis: Perspectives from the Kidney Health Initiative.

ABSTRACT: Pragmatic clinical trials are conducted under the real-world conditions of clinical care delivery. As a result, these trials yield findings that are highly generalizable to the nonresearch setting, identify interventions that are readily translatable into clinical practice, and cost less than trials that require extensive research infrastructures. Maintenance dialysis is a setting especially well suited for pragmatic trials because of inherently frequent and predictable patient encounters, highly granular and uniform data collection, use of electronic data systems, and delivery of care by a small number of provider organizations to approximately 90% of patients nationally. Recognizing the potential for pragmatic trials to generate much needed evidence to guide the care of patients receiving maintenance dialysis, the Kidney Health Initiative assembled a group of individuals with relevant expertise from academia, industry, and government to provide the nephrology community with information about the design and conduct of such trials, with a specific focus on the dialysis setting. Here, we review this information, and where applicable, use experience from the ongoing Time to Reduce Mortality in End Stage Renal Disease Trial, a large cluster-randomized, pragmatic trial evaluating hemodialysis session duration, to illustrate challenges and solutions to operational, ethical, and regulatory issues.

SUBMITTER: Dember LM

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5042681 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Pragmatic Trials in Maintenance Dialysis: Perspectives from the Kidney Health Initiative.

Dember Laura M LM Archdeacon Patrick P Krishnan Mahesh M Lacson Eduardo E Ling Shari M SM Roy-Chaudhury Prabir P Smith Kimberly A KA Flessner Michael F MF

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 20160711 10

Pragmatic clinical trials are conducted under the real-world conditions of clinical care delivery. As a result, these trials yield findings that are highly generalizable to the nonresearch setting, identify interventions that are readily translatable into clinical practice, and cost less than trials that require extensive research infrastructures. Maintenance dialysis is a setting especially well suited for pragmatic trials because of inherently frequent and predictable patient encounters, highl ...[more]

PMID: 27401689

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Pragmatic Trials in Maintenance Dialysis: Perspectives from the Kidney Health Initiative.

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