NCT01299259

Improving Primary Care Follow-up for Patients With Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

Improving Primary Care Follow-up for Adolescents With PID: A Randomized Controlled Trial Using Text Message Reminders

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 95 (actual)
• Sponsor: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 15 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The investigators hypothesize that text message reminders to girls diagnosed with pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) in the emergency department (ED) will improve follow-up to their primary care provider (PCP) after being discharged from the ED.

Detailed description

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommends that patients diagnosed with pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) receive follow-up care within 72 hours of diagnosis. However, recent studies show that the majority of teenage girls diagnosed with PID do not receive this follow-up care within 72 hours. We hypothesize that text message reminders to girls diagnosed with PID in the emergency department (ED) will improve follow-up to their primary care provider (PCP) after being discharged from the ED.

Conditions

• Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Text Message Reminders	Patients in the intervention group will receive text messages on their cell phones following discharge from the emergency department reminding them to make an appointment with their primary care provider. Text messages will be sent daily for 4 days after discharge from the ED.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-02-01
• Primary completion: 2014-10-01
• Completion: 2014-10-01
• First posted: 2011-02-18
• Last updated: 2014-10-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States