Clinical trial NCT02478918: Automated Telephone Reminder for Colonoscopy
Official title: Automated Telephone Reminder Prior to Outpatient Colonoscopy and the Effect on Bowel Preparation Quality
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Polyps
Lead sponsor: Queen's University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2015-06-23
Enrollment: 234
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: This is a quality improvement study to determine the impact of an automated telephone reminder on the quality of bowel preparation in patients undergoing outpatient colonoscopy.

Detailed description: Randomized trial of automated reminders with bowel prep instructions and encouraging clear fluid ingestion. The phone calls will occur 48-96 hours prior to the scheduled colonoscopy.

All patients undergoing outpatient colonoscopy and prescribed sodium picosulfate plus magnesium citrate will be eligible for enrollment.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Adult patients
* Scheduled for outpatient colonoscopy at a later date
* Prescribed evening-before or split-dose low volume preparation regimens

Exclusion Criteria:

* Refusal to receive automated telephone reminder
* No access to telephone
* Urgent/emergent indication for colonoscopy
* Prescribed a bowel prep other than Pico-Salax/Purgodan
* Receiving upper and lower combined procedure

Primary outcomes:
measure: Ottawa preparation scale score
timeFrame: Immediately after procedure
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Number of glasses of fluid consumed pre-colonoscopy
timeFrame: 24 hours
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Kingston
country: Canada
facility: Hotel Dieu Hospital
state: Ontario
Study officials:
affiliation: Queen's University
name: Lawrence Hookey, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Queen's University
name: Matthew Church
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
affiliation: Queen's University
name: Natalie Rubinger
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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