Reducing Colorectal Cancer Death Through Mailed Outreach Screening
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Brief summary
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The main study aim is to develop, implement and disseminate a pilot population-based mailed FIT outreach screening program in the Philadelphia VA Medical Center that does not rely on having an office visit, by conducting a proof-of-concept 3-arm parallel-design pragmatic randomized trial to (1) Compare the effects of usual care (UC), screening invitation + reminder (invitation-reminder), or screening invitation + mailed FIT kit + reminder (mailed-FIT); (2) Explore whether the FIT completion rate varies by age or race/ethnicity; and (3) Explore barriers to use of mailed outreach screening for Veterans.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT02584998
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 782 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 50 Years to 74 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Dec 31, 2016
- Primary completion
- Jun 11, 2017
- Completion
- Dec 29, 2017
- Last update posted
- Dec 23, 2018
2017
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | 19104 | — |
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- Last update posted Dec 23, 2018 · Synced Sep 2, 2026
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