Increasing Primary Care Physician Colorectal Cancer Screening Rates

NCT00955344 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: K22CA133186-01
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 134
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The purpose of the study is to determine if a Web-based intervention increases physician rates of colorectal cancer recommendation rates in a group of physicians participating in the American Board of Internal Medicine's Maintenance of Certification Program. This study will also compare the content of practice improvement plans submitted by the diplomats in each study arm to determine the components of the plans that are associated with colorectal cancer rates.

Conditions

Colorectal Cancer Screening

Keywords

colorectal cancer screening; American Board of Internal Medicine Maintenance of Certification program; Currently enrolled in or plan to enroll in the American Board of Internal Medicine Maintenance of Certification program

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Colorectal Cancer Screening Rates

  3 years (2012)

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Content of practice improvement plan

  3 years (2012)

Study Arms (2)

Web-based intervention (eToolbox)

EXPERIMENTAL

This arm will allow diplomats of the American Board of Internal Medicine to complete the Practice Improvement Module that will embed a link to the web-based intervention (eToolbox).

Behavioral: eToolbox

Practice Improvement Module

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

This arm will allow diplomats of the American Board of Internal Medicine to complete the Practice Improvement Module without any link to the Web-based eToolbox.

Behavioral: no link to eToolbox

Interventions

eToolbox BEHAVIORAL

Participants randomized to the Web-based intervention will be automatically routed to a URL that will contain the Web-based intervention.

Web-based intervention (eToolbox)

no link to eToolbox BEHAVIORAL

Participants randomized to the Practice Improvement Module will not be automatically routed to a URL that will contain the Web-based intervention.

Practice Improvement Module

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• ABIM certification and have or plan to enroll in the Maintenance of Certification program
• Primary Care Physicians

You may not qualify if:

• Diplomats are not able to participate in this study if they are retired physicians, do not practice a primary care practice or who have already taken part in the study

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Pennsylvania: lead
• National Cancer Institute (NCI): collaborator
• National Institutes of Health (NIH): collaborator
• Department of Health and Human Services: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, United States

Location

Study Officials

• Carmen E Guerra, MD

  University of Pennsylvania

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: August 6, 2009
• First Posted: August 10, 2009
• Study Start: September 1, 2009
• Primary Completion: November 1, 2011
• Study Completion: November 1, 2011
• Last Updated: August 17, 2016

Record last verified: 2016-08

Locations

US (1)