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Dissemination of Colorectal Cancer Screening to Primary Care Physicians

NCT00441311 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE4 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 264

Last updated 2011-02-01

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The aim is to assess the efficacy of an intervention, academic detailing, a brief, frequently repeated educational program, on increasing recommendations for colorectal cancer screening among primary care providers by comparison to a service-as-usual control. The study is a stratified randomized clinical trial of primary care physicians, stratified by distinct urban communities in the New York metropolitan area. The primary outcome is colorectal cancer screening recommendations measured via medical audit at 12-month followup after randomization.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Academic Detailing

The academic detailing intervention will involve multiple components some of which are standardized across physicians (i.e. self-learning packets, newsletters). Detailing will also be customized to each physician, although the frequency of the detailing visits will be routinized across all participants to reduce cost and to maximize its potential for dissemination.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Sherri Sheinfeld Gorin, PhD · Columbia University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SCREENING
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
50 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2003-05-31
Primary Completion
2006-07-31
Completion
2006-09-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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