Outreach for Patients That Are Newly Eligible for Colorectal Cancer Screening (UPQUAL)

Northwestern University

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Colorectal Cancer

Treatments: Behavioral: Letter Only; Behavioral: Letter and Educational DVD

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT00860249

1R18HS017163-02

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether patient outreach is effective at increasing compliance with preventative screenings for those patients who, based on national quality standards, have become newly eligible for screening measures. We hypothesize that educational outreach may increase completion rates.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50 to 50 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patient of Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation General Internal Medicine
• Patient has a scheduled appointment with a GIM physician in the next several weeks
• Patient will be 50 years old at the time of this appointment
• Patient is male or female

Exclusion criteria

• This is the first time the patient is seen in the NMFF GIM clinic
• There is a prior completion of CRC screening noted in EHR.
• There is a prior order placed for CRC screening in EHR.
• Patient has a history of CRC
• Patient has a diagnosis of ulcerative colitis, inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's Disease, or documented colectomy.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 3 patient groups

Usual Care

No Intervention group

Description:

Usual Care. Participants in this arm will receive Usual care until outcome assessment is performed at 6 months following randomization. At that time, they will be sent a letter reminding them to obtain the ordered preventative service test, however no further outcomes will be assessed. Thus, during the course of the study, all participants in this arm will have solely received usual care.

Behavioral: Letter Only

Experimental group

Description:

Behavioral: Letter Only Prior to a scheduled upcoming appointment, participants will get a letter signed by their physician that provides brief information about colorectal cancer (CRC) and notes the importance of CRC screening.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Letter Only

Behavioral: Letter and Educational DVD

Experimental group

Description:

Behavioral: Letter and Educational DVD Participants will get a letter from their physician that provides brief information about colorectal cancer (CRC) and notes the importance of CRC screening. It will be accompanied by an educational DVD about the screening. The participants will receive this prior to a scheduled upcoming appointment with their physician.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Letter and Educational DVD