Translation of Colorectal Cancer Screening Guidelines to Practice: A System Intervention
Colorectal Cancer
About this trial
This is an interventional prevention trial for Colorectal Cancer focused on measuring cancer, colonoscopy, mass screening, colorectal cancer, colorectal carcinoma, reminder systems, rectal cancers, colorectal tumor, guidelines, CRC secondary prevention, colorectal neoplasms, colonic neoplasms, colonic diseases, hemoccult testing
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria: - VA Medical Centers with either CORI (Clinical Outcomes Research Initiative) or electronic notes/descriptions documenting GI endoscopic procedures Exclusion Criteria: - VA Medical Centers without electronic GI procedure documentation
Sites / Locations
- Phoenix VA Health Care System, Phoenix, AZ
- Southern Arizona VA Health Care System
- VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System, Denver, CO
- Overton Brooks VA Medical Center
- Minneapolis
- Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, NC
- VA Portland Health Care System, Portland, OR
- Tennessee Valley Healthcare System Nashville Campus, Nashville, TN
- VA Medical & Regional Office Center, White River
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
No Intervention
Electronic Consult System
Usual Care
A new consult system designed to automatically send a gastroenterology consult request for patients with positive fecal occult blood testing (FOBT+) results
The usual and customary procedures for addressing FOBT+ results: primary care physicians continued to be responsible for follow up of FOBT+ results.