Primary Care Based Randomized Trial to Reduce Cancer Screening Disparities

University of Rochester1,072 enrolled

Overview

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

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.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

1,072

Conditions

Preventive Measures

Interventions

Early InterventionBEHAVIORAL

At the point of randomization the early group will receive increasingly intensive reminders to complete specific cancer screening tests.

Delayed interventionBEHAVIORAL

One year from the point of randomization patients will begin to receive increasingly intensive reminders to complete specific cancer screening tests.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 40 YearsMax age: 75 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Men age 50-75 yrs. * Women age 40-75 yrs * One primary care visit in past 2 years. Exclusion Criteria: * High risk for colorectal or breast cancer.

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

To test for differences in rates of screening between the early intervention and delayed groups, the chi-square test will be used for each outcome.

Time frame: End of project, 12/2011

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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