Among a limited sample of dialysis facilities with low waitlisting, provider awareness of racial disparities in kidney transplant waitlisting was low, particularly among staff who may have more routine contact with patients.

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Introduction: The Allocation System Changes for Equity in Kidney Transplantation (ASCENT) trial was a cluster-randomized pragmatic, effectiveness-implementation study designed to test whether a multicomponent educational intervention targeting leadership, clinic staff, and patients in dialysis facilities improved knowledge and awareness of the 2014 Kidney Allocation System (KAS) change. Methods: Participants included 690 dialysis facility medical directors, nephrologists, social workers, and other staff within 655 US dialysis facilities, with 51% (n ¼ 334) in the intervention group and 49% (n ¼ 321) in the control group. Intervention activities included a webinar targeting medical directors and facility staff, an approximately 10-minute educational video targeting dialysis staff, an approximately 10-minute educational video targeting patients, and a facility-specific audit and feedback report of transplant performance. The control group received a standard United Network for Organ Sharing brochure. Provider knowledge was a secondary outcome of the ASCENT trial and the primary outcome of this study; knowledge was assessed as a cumulative score on a 5-point Likert scale (higher score ¼ greater knowledge). Intention-to-treat analysis was used. Results: At baseline, nonintervention providers had a higher mean knowledge score (mean AE SD, 2.45 AE 1.43) than intervention providers (mean AE SD, 2.31 AE 1.46). After 3 months, the average knowledge score was slightly higher in the intervention (mean AE SD, 3.14 AE 1.28) versus nonintervention providers (mean AE SD, 3.07 AE 1.24), and the estimated mean difference in knowledge scores between the groups at follow-up minus the mean difference at baseline was 0.25 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.11-0.48; P ¼ 0.039). The effect size (0.41) was low to moderate. Conclusion: Dialysis facility provider education could help extend the impact of a national policy change in organ allocation.