Trial reportJournal of general internal medicine2008
Physician reminders to promote surveillance colonoscopy for colorectal adenomas: a randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in Journal of general internal medicine, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00397969 (Improving Surveillance for Colorectal Polyps), which is not on this map. Cited by 21 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Improving Surveillance for Colorectal Polyps
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Systems intervention to promote colon cancer screening in safety net settings: protocol for a community-based participatory randomized controlled trial.Implementation science : IS · 2013Trial
- Preferences for Personalized Text Message Appointment Reminders Among Outpatients in a Universal Health System: Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
- Postoperative Surveillance Adherence in Colorectal Cancer Patients at Urban Medical Centers: Is It Adequate?Cureus · 2024Article
- Multilevel Follow-up of Cancer Screening (mFOCUS): Protocol for a multilevel intervention to improve the follow-up of abnormal cancer screening test results.Contemporary clinical trials · 2021Article
- Adapting genetic counseling operations amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of genetic counseling · 2021Article
- Follow-up of 3 Million Persons Undergoing Colonoscopy in Germany: Utilization of Repeat Colonoscopies and Polypectomies Within 10 Years.Clinical and translational gastroenterology · 2020Article
- Comorbid Illness, Bowel Preparation, and Logistical Constraints Are Key Reasons for Outpatient Colonoscopy Nonattendance.Canadian journal of gastroenterology & hepatology · 2016Article
- Development and validation of the PROcedural Sedation Assessment Survey (PROSAS) for assessment of procedural sedation quality.Gastrointestinal endoscopy · 2015Article
- Personal health record reach in the Veterans Health Administration: a cross-sectional analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2014Article
- Patient-, provider-, and system-level factors in low adherence to surveillance colonoscopy guidelines: implications for future interventions.Journal of gastrointestinal cancer · 2014Article
- Whites and blacks have similar risk of metachronous advanced colorectal neoplasia.Digestive diseases and sciences · 2014Article
- Public health and cooperative group partnership: a colorectal cancer intervention.Seminars in oncology nursing · 2014Article
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- Adherence to physician recommendation to colorectal cancer screening colonoscopy among Hispanics.Journal of general internal medicine · 2011Article
- Patient acceptance of universal screening for hepatitis C virus infection.BMC infectious diseases · 2011Article
- Barrier-focused intervention to increase colonoscopy attendance among nonadherent high-risk populations.World journal of gastroenterology · 2009Article
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Abstract
backgroundMost colorectal cancers develop from adenomatous polyps. National guidelines recommend surveillance colonoscopy within 5 years after such polyps are removed.
objectiveTo determine whether surveillance colonoscopy can be increased among overdue patients by reminders to their primary physicians.
designRandomized, controlled trial of patient-specific reminders mailed to 141 physicians in 2 Massachusetts primary care networks during April, 2006. PATIENTS: Seven hundred seventeen patients who had colorectal adenomas removed during 1995 through 2000 and no follow-up colonoscopy identified via automated review of electronic records through March, 2006. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN
resultsThe use of colonoscopy and detection of new adenomas or cancer were assessed at 6 months by a blinded medical record review in all patients. Among 358 patients whose physicians received reminders, 33 (9.2%) patients underwent colonoscopy within 6 months, compared with 16 (4.5%) of 359 patients whose physicians did not receive reminders (P = 0.009). In prespecified subgroups, this effect did not differ statistically between 2 primary care networks, elderly and nonelderly patients, or women and men (all P > 0.60 by Breslow-Day test). New adenomas or cancer were detected in 14 (3.9%) intervention patients and 6 (1.7%) control patients (P = 0.06), representing 42.4% and 37.5% of patients who underwent colonoscopy in each group, respectively. Despite using advanced electronic health records to identify eligible patients, 22.5% of enrolled patients had a prior follow-up colonoscopy ascertained only by visual record review, and physicians reported 27.9% of intervention patients were no longer active in their practice.
conclusionsAmong patients with prior colorectal adenomas, physician reminders increased the use of surveillance colonoscopy, but better systems are needed to identify eligible patients (ClinicalTrials.gov ID number NCT00397969).
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