Pragmatic Trial of Hospitalization Rate in Chronic Kidney Disease.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite the availability of effective therapies for patients with chronic kidney disease, type 2 diabetes, and hypertension (the kidney-dysfunction triad), the results of large-scale trials examining the implementation of guideline-directed therapy to reduce the risk of death and complications in this population are lacking.

Methods

In this open-label, cluster-randomized trial, we assigned 11,182 patients with the kidney-dysfunction triad who were being treated at 141 primary care clinics either to receive an intervention that used a personalized algorithm (based on the patient's electronic health record [EHR]) to identify patients and practice facilitators to assist providers in delivering guideline-based interventions or to receive usual care. The primary outcom

SUBMITTER: Vazquez MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11646681 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature