NCT04976166Completed
Shared Decision Making for Choosing renAl Replacement Therapy in Chronic Kidney Disease Patients
Shared Decision Making for Choosing renAl Replacement Therapy in Chronic Kidney Disease Patients (SDM-ART Trial)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 8 Sept 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Shared decision making (SDM) is an approach where clinicians and patients make decisions together using the best available evidence. An understanding of the patient's treatment goals, the advantages and disadvantages of treatment options, and the likelihood of achieving the outcomes are important to patients. International guidelines recommend that all patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) at pre-dialysis stage should be educated to improve their knowledge and understanding of their condition and to choose the options for renal replacement therapy (RRT). Despite these recommendations, pre-dialysis educations are often infrequent. Many patients feel unprepared. Wrong or insufficient understanding due to insufficient explanation of treatment can lead to negative emotions. This may lead to a situation in which the patient loses the opportunity to make patient's own choices, resulting in emergency dialysis or dialysis modality that is not suitable for patients. Therefore, this study aims to evaluate whether SDM has an effect on the choice of RRT among CKD patients.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 1194 (actual)
- First submitted
- 21 Jun 2021
- Start date
- 26 Feb 2021
- Primary completion date
- 31 Jul 2026
- Lead sponsor
- Seoul National University Hospital
- Diseases
- Chronic kidney disease
- NCT number
- NCT04976166
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 1194
- From 26 Feb 2021 to the primary completion date, 31 Jul 2026
- 19 sites in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Patients who have contraindication to perform peritoneal dialysis due to abdominal surgery
Other illness
- Patients whose life expectancy is less than 6 months due to underlying diseases
Other
- Patients who have enrolled in other clinical trials within 3 months or plan to participate in other clinical trials during this clinical trial period
- Patients judged by the investigator to be inappropriate for participation in this clinical trial
Who the study is looking for
- Patients with chronic kidney disease whose nephrologist predicts initiation of renal replacement therapy within 12 months:
- Patients with grade 5 of chronic kidney disease \[defined as a creatinine-based estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) \< 15 ml/dL/1.73m2 at least 2 times at intervals of 2 weeks or longer\]
- Patients with the cystatin C-based eGFR \< 15 ml/dL/1.73m2 at least once if the creatinine-based eGFR does not accurately evaluate the kidney function of patient due to patient characteristics
- Patients whose nephrologist require renal replacement therapy within 12 months due to the patient's comorbidities even when the eGFR is 15ml/dL/1.73m2 or higher
- Patients aged between 19 and 80 years
- Patients who understand the study
- Patients who have no permanent access device for long-term maintenance dialysis
Age in the registry: 19 years to 80 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (19)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kyungpook National University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Daegu | South Korea | Unknown status |
| Kyungpook National University Chilgok Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Daegu | South Korea | Unknown status |
| Daejeon Eulji Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Daejeon | South Korea | Unknown status |
| Dongguk University Ilsan Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Goyang | South Korea | Unknown status |
| Chonnam National University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Gwangju | South Korea | Unknown status |
| Gachon University Gil Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Incheon | South Korea | Unknown status |
| Pusan National University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Pusan | South Korea | Unknown status |
| Bundang Seoul National University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seongnam-si | South Korea | Unknown status |
| Samsung Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seoul | South Korea | Unknown status |
| Ewha Woman's University Seoul Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seoul | South Korea | Unknown status |
| Kyung Hee University Hospital at Gangdong Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seoul | South Korea | Unknown status |
| Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seoul | South Korea | Unknown status |
| The Catholic University of Korea, Eunpyeong St. Mary's Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seoul | South Korea | Unknown status |
| The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul ST. Mary's Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seoul | South Korea | Unknown status |
| Korea University Guro Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seoul | South Korea | Unknown status |
| Severance hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seoul | South Korea | Unknown status |
| Seoul National University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seoul | South Korea | Unknown status |
| Ulsan University Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ulsan | South Korea | Unknown status |
| Yonsei University Wonju Severance Christian Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Wŏnju | South Korea | Unknown status |
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