Increasing Colorectal Cancer Screening in a Safety-net Health System With a Focus on the Uninsured: Benefits and Costs

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Enrollment

5,970

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

October 31, 2010

Primary Completion Date

September 30, 2013

Study Completion Date

September 30, 2013

Conditions
Colorectal Cancer
Interventions
OTHER

Mailed invitations for FIT test kits

Mailed invitations for the non-invasive immunochemical stool blood test will be the intervention compared to the standard care at John Peter Smith Hospital. Patients will be invited to complete a free home-based, non-invasive immunochemical stool blood test.

OTHER

Mailed invitations for a colonoscopy

These patients will be mailed invitations to directly book a free colonoscopy, or to see a physician for free pre-operative screening at John Peter Smith Hospital.

OTHER

Visit Based Care

Visit based standard care at John Peter Smith Hospital. Patients will continue to see their regular physician and follow the physician's recommendations as they normally would.

Sponsors

Collaborators (1)

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas

OTHER

collaborator

Polymedco Corporation

UNKNOWN

lead

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

OTHER