Preventive Measures
Conditions
Keywords
cancer screening, screening disparities, underserved populations
Brief summary
The purpose of this project is to improve cancer screening rates within practices serving low-income minority patients
Detailed description
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.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALEarly Intervention
At the point of randomization the early group will receive increasingly intensive reminders to complete specific cancer screening tests.
BEHAVIORALDelayed intervention
One year from the point of randomization patients will begin to receive increasingly intensive reminders to complete specific cancer screening tests.
Sponsors
American Cancer Society, Inc.
University of Rochester
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
CROSSOVER
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
40 Years to 75 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
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.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 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. | End of project, 12/2011 |
Outcome results
None listed