Primary Care Based Randomized Trial to Reduce Cancer Screening Disparities (Get Screened)

University of Rochester

Status: Completed

Conditions: Preventive Measures

Treatments: Behavioral: Delayed intervention; Behavioral: Early Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00818857

RSRB 00025557

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this project is to improve cancer screening rates within practices serving low-income minority patients

Full description

This project is designed to implement and rigorously evaluate a cancer screening quality improvement project within a practice serving underserved patients. The project involves use of a patient registry coupled with patient reminders,recall and outreach.All unscreened patients will receive the benefit of this intervention, though some sooner than others for the purpose of evaluation.

Enrollment: 1,072 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Men age 50-75 yrs.
• Women age 40-75 yrs
• One primary care visit in past 2 years.

Exclusion criteria

• High risk for colorectal or breast cancer.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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1,072 participants in 2 patient groups

1

Active Comparator group

Description:

Early intervention.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Early Intervention

2

Active Comparator group

Description:

Delayed intervention

Treatment:

Behavioral: Delayed intervention