Text Message-Based Nudges Prior to Primary Care Visits to Increase Care Gap Closure

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Conditions studied: Pneumonia, Pneumococcal, Diabetes Mellitus, Breast Cancer, Colorectal Cancer

In brief

Primary care visits are a key aspect of clinical care focused on helping patients to close care gaps related to preventive care such as vaccination, diabetes testing, statin therapy and cancer screening. However, less than 50% of care gaps are closed during these visits and new approaches are needed to prime patients for a discussion during these visits. In this study, the study team will evaluate a health system initiative that uses text messaging to patients in days preceding a primary care visit to prime patients to be amenable to ordering of vaccination, diabetes testing, cancer screening, and statin prescribing.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT05799976

Run by

Mitesh Patel

People needed

29334

Starts

2023-09-05

Expected to finish

2024-02-09

Last updated by the study team

2024-04-25

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Age 18 or older
• Have documented consent to communicate electronically
• Have a visit scheduled with a primary care practice
• Have at least one open care gap among those in the intervention

You may not qualify if…

• No phone number on file to send text messages

Where it is running

• Ascension — St Louis, Missouri, United States

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