Designing Clinical Trials for Shared Decision-Making Interventions in Nephrology
The kidney community has increasingly recognized the need for interventions to support shared decision-making (SDM) and improve the quality of education and counseling for persons with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD). High-quality decision-making is particularly important for older adults facing intensive lifelong treatments like dialysis. For older adults, dialysis is often a destination therapy and is associated with substantial quality-of-life burdens and sometimes limited survival benefits.



