Outreach for Patients With Uncompleted Colorectal Cancer Screening Orders

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Colorectal Cancer Screening, Prevention & Control

In brief

The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether patient outreach is effective at increasing compliance with preventive screenings ordered by their physician. We hypothesize that educational outreach may increase completion rates.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00793455

Run by

Northwestern University

People needed

628

Starts

2008-10-01

Expected to finish

2009-11-01

Last updated by the study team

2011-12-01

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patient's physician has ordered a preventive screening test
• Patient has not completed this test in 3 months
• Patient of Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation General Internal Medicine Clinic.

You may not qualify if…

• Patient has been given a more recent order for the same screening test.
• Patient has significant life stress as noted in the Electronic Health Record (EHR)

Where it is running

• Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation General Internal Medicine Clinic — Chicago, Illinois, United States

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