Status:

COMPLETED

Spaced Education to Optimize Prostate Cancer Screening

Lead Sponsor:

Harvard University Faculty of Medicine

Collaborating Sponsors:

US Department of Veterans Affairs

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

Conditions:

Prostate Cancer

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

Two memory research findings (the spacing and testing effects) can dramatically improve retention of learning, but they have largely have been ignored by educators. The researchers have developed a no...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Primary care providers (physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants) from the 8 Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals in the New England region (Veterans Integrated Service Network 1 \[VISN-1\]) were eligible to enroll.

Exclusion

  • Primary care providers (PCPs) who ordered PSA as a screen for prostate cancer less than 10 times each year were excluded.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

January 1 2007

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

February 1 2009

Estimated Enrollment :

95 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT01168323

Start Date

January 1 2007

End Date

February 1 2009

Last Update

August 9 2010

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Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System

Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02130