HOME: Evaluation of a Virtual Home Dialysis Mentoring Program (Home)

• Sponsor: Satellite Healthcare (Other)
• Overall Status: Completed
• CT.gov ID: NCT04806126
• Collaborator: (none)
• Enrollment: 40
• Location: 1
• Actual Duration (Months): 9.4
• Patients Per Site Per Month: 4.2

Study Details

Study Description

Brief 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

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
End Stage Renal Disease on Dialysis; Home Dialysis

Detailed 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.

Study Design

• Study Type: Observational
• Actual Enrollment: 40 participants
• Observational Model: Cohort
• Time Perspective: Prospective
• Official Title: Evaluation of a Virtual Home Dialysis Mentoring Program (Home)
• Actual Study Start Date: Mar 19, 2021
• Actual Primary Completion Date: Dec 31, 2021
• Actual Study Completion Date: Dec 31, 2021

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Virtual Mentoring Program Participants Physicians credentialed at Satellite Healthcare will be eligible to participate along with nephrology fellows from training programs affiliated with credentialed physicians.

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

1. The change in participants' self-reported knowledge awareness. [through study completion, an average of 1 year]

   The change in participants' self-reported knowledge awareness (as assessed by self- reported expertise rating).

2. The change in participants' perception of home dialysis adoption [through study completion, an average of 1 year]

   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.

Secondary Outcome Measures

1. Number of registered participants [through study completion, an average of 1 year]

   Number of physicians who register for the program

2. Number of participants attending each session [through study completion, an average of 1 year]

   Number of physicians who participate in each mentoring Session

3. Change in the percentage of patients using home dialysis [through study completion, an average of 1 year]

   Change between baseline and end of study in the number of home dialysis patients

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: N/A and Older
• Sexes Eligible for Study: All
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

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

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	Satellite Healthcare, Inc.	San Jose	California	United States	95128

Sponsors and Collaborators

• Satellite Healthcare

Investigators

None specified.

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

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

• Responsible Party: Satellite Healthcare
• ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04806126
• Other Study ID Numbers: SP132_Home
• First Posted: Mar 19, 2021
• Last Update Posted: May 20, 2022
• Last Verified: May 1, 2022

• Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement: No
• Plan to Share IPD: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product: No
• Additional relevant MeSH terms: Kidney Failure, Chronic

Study Results

No Results Posted as of May 20, 2022