Implementation of mailed colon cancer screening testing
- Conditions
- Completion of colon cancer screeningCancer
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN22187559
- Lead Sponsor
- Minneapolis VA Health Care System
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Ongoing
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 9000
1. Is not deceased
2. Is a Veteran
3. Must have deliverable address
4. Active or pending primary care provider assignment
1. Exclude patients from Northern Mariana Islands, Armed Forces Pacific, Palau, Virgin Islands, American Somoa, Armed Forces AF, EU, ME, CA, Puerto Rico, or any foreign country
2. CAN score with 1 year mortality rate of >50%
3. Have received hospice care in the last two years
4. Have received palliative care in the last year
5. Have had ulcerative colitis diagnosis in the last year
6. Have had crohn disease diagnosis in the last year
7. History of adeoma in the last year
8. Have had metastatic cancer diagnosis in the last year
9. Any total colectomy procedures in the last year
10. Frailty and advanced illness diagnosis in the last year
11. Clopidogrel (or other thienopyridine) prescription in the last four months of prescription and no prescription for 121-365 days prior
12. Have had FOBT in the last 10 months
13. Have had colonoscopy in the last 112 months
14. Have had a CT colonography in the last 54 months
15. Have had a DNA FIT in the last 33 months
16. Have had a Flex Sigmoid in the last 4.5 years
17. Active/pending/scheduled colonoscopy consults in the last 90 days
18. Have existing mailed FIT orders
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Completion of colon cancer screening completion four weeks after being mailed a FIT kit measured using patient records
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Reach of the intervention - proportion of patients that schedule a colonoscopy following a positive test measured using patient records at the end of the study