Adult Primary and Preventive Practice (APPP) Study

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Preventive Care
• Interventions: Other: Educational materials on a new diagnostic service

• Registration Number: NCT02915653
• Lead Sponsor: Qure Healthcare, LLC

Brief Summary

The study is a pre-post two round, randomized controlled study design of PCPs randomly assigned to a control or 1 of 2 intervention arms.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2016-09
• Study First Submitted: 2016-09-22
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-09-22
• Study First Posted: 2016-09-27
• Primary Completion: 2016-11
• Study Completion: 2017-11
• Status Verified: 2018-06
• Last Update Submitted: 2018-06-18
• Last Update Posted: 2018-06-20

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 213

Inclusion Criteria

• 1. Provide consent to participate in the study 2. Board-certified physician currently practicing in the following areas: 3. Internal medicine 4. Family medicine 5. Have practiced as a board-certified physician in internal or family medicine for greater than 2 but less than 30 years. 6. English-speaking 7. Community / non-academic based practice setting 8. ≥ 40 patients under care weekly 9. Access to the internet

Exclusion Criteria

• 1. Not board certified in their respective area of care 2. Academic-based practice 3. Have practiced as a board-certified physician for less than 2 or greater than 30 years 4. Follow <40 patients weekly 5. Non-English speaking 6. Unable to access the internet

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Intervention 1	Educational materials on a new diagnostic service	Receiving educational materials on a new diagnostic service
Intervention 2	Educational materials on a new diagnostic service	Receiving educational materials on a new diagnostic service

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Quality of Care	8 weeks	Difference in difference of combined diagnostic and treatment CPV domain scores, including colonoscopy referral rates, in post-intervention versus baseline comparing intervention and control groups among the three patient types.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Intervention Impact on Care	8 weeks	Difference in difference between the control and intervention groups in the overall quality of care for CRC screening and for adult primary prevention care measured by the combined and individual item CPV scores for the three patient types.
Healthcare Utilization	8 weeks	Difference in health care utilization and/or costs in patients tested with SimpliPro Colon™ versus the control group.
Diagnostic Method Comparison	8 weeks	Difference in recommendation of CRC evaluation with colonoscopy and/or flexible sigmoidoscopy, double barium enema, or CT colonography, including risk-level and urgency pre- and post-intervention, between intervention and control groups

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

QURE Healthcare; 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States