Automated Telephone Reminder for Colonoscopy

Queen's University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Polyps

Treatments: Other: Phone call

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02478918

6013364

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a quality improvement study to determine the impact of an automated telephone reminder on the quality of bowel preparation in patients undergoing outpatient colonoscopy.

Full description

Randomized trial of automated reminders with bowel prep instructions and encouraging clear fluid ingestion. The phone calls will occur 48-96 hours prior to the scheduled colonoscopy.

All patients undergoing outpatient colonoscopy and prescribed sodium picosulfate plus magnesium citrate will be eligible for enrollment.

Enrollment: 234 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adult patients
• Scheduled for outpatient colonoscopy at a later date
• Prescribed evening-before or split-dose low volume preparation regimens

Exclusion criteria

• Refusal to receive automated telephone reminder
• No access to telephone
• Urgent/emergent indication for colonoscopy
• Prescribed a bowel prep other than Pico-Salax/Purgodan
• Receiving upper and lower combined procedure

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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234 participants in 2 patient groups

Receiving reminder phone call

Experimental group

Description:

Will receive phone call to remind colonoscopy date and bowel prep

Treatment:

Other: Phone call

Not receiving reminder phone call

No Intervention group

Description:

Will not receive phone call to remind colonoscopy date and bowel prep