# ACCESS HD: Comparing Catheters to Fistulas in Elderly Patients Starting Hemodialysis

> **NCT02675569** · NA · UNKNOWN · sponsor: **University of Calgary** · enrollment: 100 (estimated)

## Conditions studied

- End-stage Kidney Failure

## Interventions

- **PROCEDURE:** Catheter
- **PROCEDURE:** Fistula

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT02675569
- **Lead sponsor:** University of Calgary
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** UNKNOWN
- **Start date:** 2016-05
- **Primary completion:** 2025-03
- **Final completion:** 2025-03
- **Target enrollment:** 100 (ESTIMATED)
- **Last updated:** 2022-07-21

## Collaborators

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## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02675569

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT02675569, "ACCESS HD: Comparing Catheters to Fistulas in Elderly Patients Starting Hemodialysis". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-01 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT02675569. Licensed CC0.

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