NCT02478918

Automated Telephone Reminder for Colonoscopy

Automated Telephone Reminder Prior to Outpatient Colonoscopy and the Effect on Bowel Preparation Quality

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 234 (actual)
• Sponsor: Queen's University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This is a quality improvement study to determine the impact of an automated telephone reminder on the quality of bowel preparation in patients undergoing outpatient colonoscopy.

Detailed description

Randomized trial of automated reminders with bowel prep instructions and encouraging clear fluid ingestion. The phone calls will occur 48-96 hours prior to the scheduled colonoscopy. All patients undergoing outpatient colonoscopy and prescribed sodium picosulfate plus magnesium citrate will be eligible for enrollment.

Conditions

• Polyps

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Phone call	Automated phone call reminder

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-06-01
• Primary completion: 2016-05-15
• Completion: 2016-05-15
• First posted: 2015-06-23
• Last updated: 2017-02-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada