NCT00818857

Primary Care Based Randomized Trial to Reduce Cancer Screening Disparities

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,072 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Rochester · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 40 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

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

Detailed 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.

Conditions

• Preventive Measures

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Early Intervention	At the point of randomization the early group will receive increasingly intensive reminders to complete specific cancer screening tests.
BEHAVIORAL	Delayed intervention	One year from the point of randomization patients will begin to receive increasingly intensive reminders to complete specific cancer screening tests.

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-01-01
• Primary completion: 2012-10-01
• Completion: 2013-02-01
• First posted: 2009-01-08
• Last updated: 2016-06-20