Don't Throw Your Heart Away: Patient Study 4

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Cardiac Transplant Disorder

In brief

This empirical study tests whether transplant center performance data that reflect center donor acceptance rates influence patients and their family members to evaluate centers with high organ decline rates less favorably than centers with low organ decline rates. 400 transplant patients and family members will be recruited from transplant support group social media websites and randomized to one of four different information presentation conditions. Upon viewing a pair of outcome tables corresponding to their condition, the participants are asked to choose which hospital is higher performing (one hospital with a non-selective "accepting" strategy and one hospital with a more selective "cherrypicking" strategy.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04809051

Run by

Carnegie Mellon University

People needed

94

Starts

2021-04-01

Expected to finish

2023-08-31

Last updated by the study team

2024-02-14

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Participants will be asked to participate if they confirm the following inclusion criteria in the consent form.
• 18 years of age or older
• must read and understand the information in the consent form
• must want to participate in the research and continue with the survey
• must be a pre- or post-transplant patient or family member of the transplant patient

You may not qualify if…

• Participants who do not meet the primary criterion of being a pre- or post-transplant patient or family member of the transplant patient.

Where it is running

• Carnegie Mellon University — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

Trial information comes from ClinicalTrials.gov and is refreshed daily. TrialsForMe does not provide medical care and does not run the studies it lists.