A Multi-modal, Physician-centered Intervention to Improve Guideline-concordant Prostate Cancer Imaging
Running, not enrolling · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Prostate Cancer
In brief
The primary aim of this study is to determine whether a multi-modal, physician-focused behavioral intervention can improve facility-level guideline-concordant utilization of prostate cancer staging imaging. Other aims of this study include to use mixed methods to explore physician influence on guideline-concordant imaging and to determine the cost and cost impact of a physician-focused behavioral intervention to improve guideline-concordant prostate cancer imaging.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT03445559
- Run by
- VA Office of Research and Development
- People needed
- 58
- Starts
- 2018-04-09
- Expected to finish
- 2027-02-28
- Last updated by the study team
- 2026-06-04
Who can join
Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Provider Criteria:
- Urology Chiefs and attending urologists employed through the VA (full time, part time) at one of the 10 participating sites
- Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners employed through the VA at one of the 10 participating sites that work in the respective urology clinics
- Providers may be any gender or race/ethnicity
- Qualitative portion only:
- Urology Chiefs and/or frontline staff physicians
- participating PAs \& NPs having cared for at least 5 men with incident prostate cancer within the previous 6 months
- Patients will not be directly recruited into the study.
- The investigators have obtained a waiver of HIPAA authorization and informed consent to analyze electronic health records of patients that are diagnosed with ICD-9 code 185 or ICD-10 code C61 during the study period at the 10 participating sites.
You may not qualify if…
- Provider Criteria:
- Urology Residents will be excluded.
- Patients
- Patients will be excluded if they have a history of prior malignancy
- Are over the age of 85
- Diagnosed at autopsy or by death certificate
- Died within 3 months of diagnosis
- Not having data on at least one of the following:
- PSA
- clinical stage
- Gleason score
Where it is running
- VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA — Palo Alto, California, United States
- VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, West Los Angeles, CA — West Los Angeles, California, United States
- VA Connecticut Healthcare System West Haven Campus, West Haven, CT — West Haven, Connecticut, United States
- Minneapolis VA Health Care System, Minneapolis, MN — Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
- VA NY Harbor Healthcare System, New York, NY — New York, New York, United States
- Syracuse VA Medical Center, Syracuse, NY — Syracuse, New York, United States
- VA Portland Health Care System, Portland, OR — Portland, Oregon, United States
- VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System University Drive Division, Pittsburgh, PA — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
- VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, Salt Lake City, UT — Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
- VA Puget Sound Health Care System Seattle Division, Seattle, WA — Seattle, Washington, United States
- William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, Madison, WI — Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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