Trial reportAMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium2009
The effectiveness of a secure email reminder system for colorectal cancer screening.
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Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 22 citations in OpenAlex.
- Evaluation of Interventions Intended to Increase Colorectal Cancer Screening Rates in the United States: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.JAMA internal medicine · 2018Pooled it
- Email for the provision of information on disease prevention and health promotion.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2012Pooled it
- Electronic patient messages to promote colorectal cancer screening: a randomized controlled trial.Archives of internal medicine · 2011Trial
- Improving Colorectal Screening Compliance Through Targeted Quality Improvement Interventions in Primary Care.Cureus · 2025Article
- Challenges and opportunities of LGBTQ health nudging.Health science reports · 2024Article
- Evaluation of a multimedia outreach campaign for a multi-target stool DNA test for colorectal cancer screening among non-medicare employer population in the United States.Preventive medicine reports · 2022Article
- Use of electronic health record messaging to manage patients with pregnancy of unknown location.European journal of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology · 2022Article
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- A Mobile Web App to Improve Health Screening Uptake in Men (ScreenMen): Utility and Usability Evaluation Study.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2019Article
- E-mail to Promote Colorectal Cancer Screening Within Social Networks: Acceptability and Content.Journal of health communication · 2015Article
- Applying operations research to optimize a novel population management system for cancer screening.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2014Article
- Examining the Multi-level Fit between Work and Technology in a Secure Messaging Implementation.AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium · 2014Article
- Adapting to telemedicine in the COVID-19 era: Feasibility of dried blood spot testing for hemoglobin A1c.Diabetes & metabolic syndromeArticle
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Authors and funding
4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
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Abstract
This study looks at the effectiveness of using a secure email system linked to an electronic health record to send reminders to patients in an effort to increase colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates; 1397 subjects were randomized to receive usual care, a letter reminder or an email reminder which invited patients to pick up a fecal occult blood test at the lab for CRC screening. The number of completed CRC screenings was tallied after a 3 month study period. Rates of CRC screening in the 3 groups were 7.8% in the usual care group, 23.6% in the letter reminder group and 22.7% in the email group. Significant statistical difference was seen between usual care group and letter reminders (p<0.0005) and between usual care and email reminders (p<0.0005) but not between the letter reminders and the email reminders (p=7.11). Email reminders are as effective as letter reminders in increasing CRC screening rates.
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