RCT of Automated Telephone Outreach to Improve Colorectal Cancer Screening

• Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
• Last refreshed on: 19 February 2015
• Main ID: NCT00792285
• Date of registration: 13/11/2008
• Prospective Registration: No
• Primary sponsor: Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
• Public title: RCT of Automated Telephone Outreach to Improve Colorectal Cancer Screening
• Scientific title: Automated Telephone Outreach With Speech Recognition to Improve Colorectal Cancer Screening: A Randomized Controlled Trial
• Date of first enrolment: March 2005
• Target sample size: 80000
• Recruitment status: Completed
• URL: http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00792285
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Phase: N/A

Countries of recruitment

United States

Contacts

• Name: Steven R Simon, MD
• Affiliation: Harvard Pilgrim Health Care

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Age 50-64 at baseline

- Continuous enrollment in health plan

Exclusion Criteria:

- Prior request for exclusion from research or quality improvement

- No telephone number on file

- Enrolled in other telephone-based outreach program of the health plan

- Share household with another eligible member

- Evidence of colorectal cancer or polyps at baseline

- Evidence of prior screening at baseline such that screening is not due at time of
intervention



Age minimum: 50 Years
Age maximum: 64 Years
Gender: Both

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Colorectal Cancer

Intervention(s)

Behavioral: Automated Telephone Outreach with Speech Recognition

Primary Outcome(s)

colorectal cancer screening [Time Frame: one year]

Secondary Outcome(s)

colonoscopy screening [Time Frame: one year]

Secondary ID(s)

ATO-SR CRC

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors