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Outreach for Patients With Uncompleted Colorectal Cancer Screening Orders

NCT ID: NCT00793455

Last Updated: 2011-12-01

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

628 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2008-10-31

Study Completion Date

2009-11-30

Brief Summary

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The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether patient outreach is effective at increasing compliance with preventive screenings ordered by their physician. We hypothesize that educational outreach may increase completion rates.

Detailed Description

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We designed an intervention to focus on patients who have received and accepted a referral for colonoscopy, yet have exhibited some barriers to screening as demonstrated by a lack of screening completion. We conducted a randomized controlled trial to assess the effects of a multicomponent intervention (patient reminder, print and multimedia materials) on colorectal screening completion among this target population.

Conditions

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Colorectal Cancer Screening Prevention & Control

Keywords

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education preventive service screening

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants

Study Groups

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Intervention Group

Received Educational Outreach

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Educational outreach

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Participants will get a letter from their physician that explains that their records show the test has not been completed. The letter will be mailed along with an educational brochure and a DVD about colorectal cancer and colorectal cancer screening.

Usual Care Control Group

Participants in this arm will receive normal care until outcome assessment is performed at 6 months following the placement of the order for the preventive service. They will be sent a letter reminding them to obtain the ordered preventive service test.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Educational outreach

Participants will get a letter from their physician that explains that their records show the test has not been completed. The letter will be mailed along with an educational brochure and a DVD about colorectal cancer and colorectal cancer screening.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Patient's physician has ordered a preventive screening test
* Patient has not completed this test in 3 months
* Patient of Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation General Internal Medicine Clinic.

Exclusion Criteria

* Patient has been given a more recent order for the same screening test.
* Patient has significant life stress as noted in the Electronic Health Record (EHR)
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

FED

Sponsor Role collaborator

Northwestern University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Kenzie Cameron

Research Associate Professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Kenzie A Cameron, PhD, MPH

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Northwestern University

Locations

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Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation General Internal Medicine Clinic

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

References

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Cameron KA, Persell SD, Brown T, Thompson J, Baker DW. Patient outreach to promote colorectal cancer screening among patients with an expired order for colonoscopy: a randomized controlled trial. Arch Intern Med. 2011 Apr 11;171(7):642-6. doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.468. Epub 2010 Dec 13.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 21149742 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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1R18HS017163-01

Identifier Type: AHRQ

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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