Rachel E. Patzer|Laura McPherson|Mohua Basu|Sumit Mohan|Michael S. Wolf|Mariana C. Chiles|Allison L. Russell|Jennifer Gander|John Friedewald|Daniela P. Ladner|Christian Larsen|Thomas C. Pearson|Stephen O. Pastan
Effect of the iChoose Kidney decision aid in improving knowledge about treatment options among transplant candidates: A randomized controlled trial
Emory University|Emory University|Emory University|Columbia University Irving Medical Center|Northwestern University|Columbia University Irving Medical Center|Northwestern University|Emory University|Northwestern University|Northwestern University|Emory University|Emory University|Emory University
previously developed mobile webbased decision aid ichoose kidney displays individualized risk estimates survival mortality treatment modalities dialysis versus kidney transplantation examined effect ichoose kidney change transplant knowledge access transplant randomized controlled trial among patients presenting evaluation three transplant centers total 470 patients randomized standard transplantation education control standard education plus ichoose kidney intervention change transplant knowledge primary outcome among intervention versus control patients assessed using nine items pre postevaluation surveys access transplant secondary outcome defined composite waitlisting living donor inquiries transplantation among 443 patients n 226 intervention n 216 control mean knowledge scores 51 21 pre 58 19 postevaluation change knowledge greater among intervention 11 20 versus control 04 18 patients p 0001 access transplantation similar among intervention n 168 743 versus control patients n 153 705 p 37 ichoose kidney decision aid improved patient knowledge evaluation impact transplant access future studies examine whether combining ichoose kidney interventions increase transplantation clinicaltrialsgov nct02235571