Status:
COMPLETED
Outreach for Patients With Uncompleted Colorectal Cancer Screening Orders
Lead Sponsor:
Northwestern University
Collaborating Sponsors:
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Conditions:
Colorectal Cancer Screening
Prevention & Control
Eligibility:
All Genders
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
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 ...
Detailed Description
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 complet...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- 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
- 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)
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
October 1 2008
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
November 1 2009
Estimated Enrollment :
628 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00793455
Start Date
October 1 2008
End Date
November 1 2009
Last Update
December 1 2011
Active Locations (1)
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Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation General Internal Medicine Clinic
Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60611