Evaluation of an Intervention to Increase Colorectal Cancer Screening in Primary Care Clinics
Colorectal Cancer
About this trial
This is an interventional prevention trial for Colorectal Cancer focused on measuring Cancer, Colorectal cancer, Patient education, Physician education
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria for the Patient-focused Intervention
- Average risk
- Male or female
- 50-75 years
- Scheduled for non-acute ambulatory care visit at one of the study sites
- Due for CRC screening including no record of FOBT in the past year, no record of flexible sigmoidoscopy in the past 5 years, no record of colonoscopy in the past 10 years, and no record of double contrast barium enema in the past 5 years
Inclusion Criteria for the Clinic-focused Intervention
- Primary care clinicians, to include the following specialties: Family Practice/General Practice Physicians, General Internal Medicine Physicians, Nurse Practitioners in Family/General Practice, Physician Assistants who conduct non-acute ambulatory medical exams in study clinics
- Primary care clinical staff, to include nurses, medical assistants, and appointment schedulers
Exclusion Criteria (Patients):
- Prior diagnosis of CRC
- Prior diagnosis of colorectal polyps
- Prior diagnosis of ulcerative colitis
- Prior diagnosis of Crohn's Disease
- Prior diagnosis of hereditary nonpolyposis or polyposis
- Medical records contain an International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9) code for family history of CRC
- Younger than 50 years of age
- Older than 80 years of age.
Sites / Locations
- Henry Ford Health System
- ABQ Health Partners/Lovelace Clinic Foundation
- Battelle Centers for Public Health Research and Evaluation
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Arm 3
Other
Experimental
Experimental
1
2
3
Usual care
Clinic-focused intervention: The clinicians and clinical staff in each of the clinics will be scheduled for training sessions. The provider trainings will be designed for clinicians and clinical staff and will be conducted in at least two separate sessions of approximately 3 hours total duration. The sessions will be scheduled to accommodate the clinic schedule, but will be held with no more than 1 month between them. Participants in clinic training sessions will receive continuing education credit.
Clinic-focused and patient focused intervention: The clinic focused-intervention as described in Arm 2 will be combined with a patient-focused intervention. Patient focused intervention: CRC education packets, based upon previously developed CDC CRC patient education materials, have been adapted for each study site. These CRC educational packets will be mailed to average-risk patients aged 50-80 years who are due for CRC screening (based on electronic records) and who schedule a non-acute ambulatory care visit in clinics assigned to the patient-focused intervention. A cover letter signed by the patient's physician will be included with each packet. The packets will be mailed approximately 1 week before the medical appointment.