AI helps kidney patients discuss future treatment options
NCT ID NCT06056518
First seen Jun 24, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study tested whether an AI tool that predicts the risk of kidney transplant failure within one year can improve conversations between patients, their families, and doctors. 76 adults with a functioning kidney transplant but declining kidney function took part. The goal was to see if the AI helped them make shared decisions about what to do if the transplant eventually fails.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- AI-based risk prediction tool
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could show that AI helps patients and doctors make better shared decisions about what to do if a kidney transplant fails.
- What could go wrong
- This was a small, single-center study that ended early due to high dropout and funding limits. The AI tool only predicts risk and does not directly improve health.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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76 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Jan 2024
- Finished
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Oct 2025
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * written informed consent * patients with functioning kidney allograft * \> 12 months after transplantation * eGFR \< 30 ml/min/1.73m2 according to CKD-EPI 2021 formula * at least 18 years of age * ability to communicate in German * regular follow-up at kidney transplant center Exclusion Criteria: * multi-organ transplantation * eGFR \> 30 ml/min/1.73m2 according to CKD-EPI 2021 formula * \<= 12 months after transplantation * less than 18 years of age * not able to communicate in German * no regular follow-up at kidney transplant center * enrollment in another interventional study less than 1 month before participation in this study
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Berlin, State of Berlin, 10117, Germany
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