NCT01172080

Utility Analysis of an Endoscopy Follow-up System

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 830 (actual)
• Sponsor: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 85 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Although systems are in place to ensure results of tests are communicated to patients, there is currently no generalized accepted strategy to ensure that patients undergo recommended follow-up testing. When follow-up tests are recommended months to years into the future, there is a high likelihood that the test will either be delayed or not performed resulting in the potential for poor outcomes and litigation. For this reason, there is a clear need for systems to be developed which automatically trigger patient communication when the date of a recommended follow-up test is approaching. The investigators propose to design a protocol for ensuring that patients are reminded to schedule follow-up tests and that this communication is documented in the online medical record. This work will provide the foundation for the creation of systems that significantly improve patient care, and can be easily adapted for use in many clinical departments and institutions. Aim 1. To use patient focus groups to help design a system for improving adherence to endoscopy follow up recommendations Aim 2. To develop a prototype endoscopy follow up system and test the effectiveness of the system on a cohort of patients due for a surveillance colonoscopy.

Conditions

• Colonoscopy Adherence

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	protocol of reminders regarding due colonoscopy	Participants receive two standardized letters followed by a phone call if they have not scheduled or completed their upcoming due colonoscopy

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-01-01
• Primary completion: 2010-04-01
• Completion: 2011-10-01
• First posted: 2010-07-29
• Last updated: 2018-03-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States