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Opt-In Versus Opt-Out for Colorectal Cancer Screening Outreach

NCT02929186 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 314

Last updated 2020-05-26

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Summary

This is a randomized controlled pilot study aimed at testing different outreach strategies (opt-in versus opt-out) to increase colorectal cancer screening through completion of mailed home fecal immunohistochemical testing (FIT).

Conditions

  • Cancer of the Colon

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Opt-In Outreach

Subjects will receive a communication (mail or electronic) describing the importance of colorectal cancer screening with the option to elect to receive a home FIT kit or report prior screening.

BEHAVIORAL

Opt-Out Outreach

Subjects will receive a communication (mail or electronic) describing the importance of colorectal cancer screening with the option to choose not to receive a home FIT kit or report prior screening. A FIT kit will otherwise be sent to the subject as a default.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Shivan Mehta, MD · University of Pennsylvania

  • Chyke Doubeni, MD · University of Pennsylvania

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SCREENING
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-01-31
Primary Completion
2017-06-15
Completion
2017-11-15

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