Clinical trial NCT02986230: Cancer Prevention Clinical Decision Support
Official title: Implementing Cancer Prevention Using Patient-Provider Clinical Decision Support
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Cancer Prevention
Keywords: Cancer prevention
Clinical Decision Support
Rural Health
Shared Decision Making
Lead sponsor: HealthPartners Institute
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2016-12-08
Enrollment: 35953
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 80
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: The objective of this project is to implement and evaluate the effectiveness of a sophisticated Web-based, electronic health record (EHR)-linked clinical decision support (CDS) system designed to improve primary and secondary cancer preventive care.

This project will engage a rural population with substantial healthcare disparities and gaps in the receipt of primary and secondary cancer prevention. Results will advance dissemination and implementation research methods that can reduce health disparities and improve healthcare for millions in medically under-served areas.

Detailed description: The objective of this project is to implement and evaluate the effectiveness of a sophisticated Web-based, electronic health record (EHR)-linked clinical decision support (CDS) system designed to improve primary and secondary cancer preventive care. To achieve this objective, EHR data is sent to evidence-based cancer prevention algorithms, housed on a secure Web site. The algorithms: (a) identify at the point of care all eligible patients not up to date on their cancer prevention interventions; and (b) present to both patient and primary care provider (PCP), appropriate evidence-based primary cancer prevention interventions and cancer screening options at the point of care. The cancer prevention (CP)-CDS will focus on breast cancer screening in women aged 50-74, colorectal cancer screening for both sexes aged 50-75, cervical cancer screening for women aged 21-65, human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccination for both sexes aged 11-26, and referrals for weight management and smoking cessation in all adults aged 18 and older. Effectiveness is assessed by cluster-randomizing 30 primary care clinics with roughly 285 PCPs and 153,000 study-eligible patients into one of three experimental conditions: Group 1: CP-CDS intervention in which the decision support is printed for the PCP and patient, designed to engage patients in discussions about appropriate cancer prevention strategies. Group 2: CP-CDS + shared decision making tools (SDMT) intervention in which the CP-CDS is printed along with additional shared decision making tools. Group 3: clinics provide usual care (UC) with no intervention-related activity related to cancer prevention.

With 10 clinics, 95 PCPs, and 51,000 potentially eligible patients per study arm, this study will formally test the hypothesis that Groups 1 and 2 are superior to Group 3 over an 12-month follow-up period with respect to: (a) significantly higher rates of appropriate screening for breast, cervix, and colorectal cancer, as defined by the United States Preventive Services Task Force; and (b) significantly higher rates of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in males and females aged 11-26 years. Secondary analysis will evaluate the impact of the intervention on lung cancer screening. The investigators further posit that Groups 1 and 2 will have higher short-term health care costs but better long-term cost-effectiveness than Group 3. The Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) and Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance (RE-AIM) conceptual frameworks will be used to guide implementation planning, organization, conduct, and impact evaluation of the intervention in a large rural healthcare system.

This project will engage a rural population with substantial healthcare disparities and gaps in the receipt of primary and secondary cancer prevention. Results will advance dissemination and implementation research methods that can reduce health disparities and improve healthcare for millions in medically under-served areas.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* meet above age criteria
* pcp practice at randomized clinic

Exclusion Criteria:

* current or past cancer diagnosis (excludes nonmelanoma skin cancer)
* hospice care or cancer chemotherapy
* Alzheimer's disease codes
* major cardiovascular event in 12 months prior to index date

Primary outcomes:
measure: Composite Cancer Screening Tests up to Date
timeFrame: 1 year post index date
measure: HPV Vaccination up to Date
timeFrame: 1 year post index date
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Lung Cancer Screening up to Date
timeFrame: 1 year post index date
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Duluth
country: United States
facility: Essentia Health
state: Minnesota
Study officials:
affiliation: HealthPartners Institute
name: Thomas E Elliott, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Elliott TE, O'Connor PJ, Asche SE, Saman DM, Dehmer SP, Ekstrom HL, Allen CI, Bianco JA, Chrenka EA, Freitag LA, Harry ML, Truitt AR, Sperl-Hillen JM. Design and rationale of an intervention to improve cancer prevention using clinical decision support and shared decision making: A clinic-randomized trial. Contemp Clin Trials. 2021 Mar;102:106271. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2021.106271. Epub 2021 Jan 24.
citation: Harry ML, Chrenka EA, Freitag LA, Saman DM, Allen CI, Asche SE, Truitt AR, Ekstrom HL, O'Connor PJ, Sperl-Hillen JAM, Ziegenfuss JY, Elliott TE. Primary care clinicians' opinions before and after implementation of cancer screening and prevention clinical decision support in a clinic cluster-randomized control trial: a survey research study. BMC Health Serv Res. 2022 Jan 6;22(1):38. doi: 10.1186/s12913-021-07421-0.
citation: Saman DM, Harry ML, Freitag LA, Allen CI, O'Connor PJ, Sperl-Hillen JM, Bianco JA, Truitt AR, Ekstrom HL, Elliott TE. Patient Perceptions of Using Clinical Decision Support for Cancer Screening and Prevention: "I wouldn't have thought about getting screened without it.". J Patient Cent Res Rev. 2021 Oct 18;8(4):297-306. doi: 10.17294/2330-0698.1863. eCollection 2021 Fall.
citation: Saman DM, Chrenka EA, Harry ML, Allen CI, Freitag LA, Asche SE, Truitt AR, Ekstrom HL, O'Connor PJ, Sperl-Hillen JM, Ziegenfuss JY, Elliott TE. The impact of personalized clinical decision support on primary care patients' views of cancer prevention and screening: a cross-sectional survey. BMC Health Serv Res. 2021 Jun 21;21(1):592. doi: 10.1186/s12913-021-06551-9.
citation: Harry ML, Saman DM, Truitt AR, Allen CI, Walton KM, O'Connor PJ, Ekstrom HL, Sperl-Hillen JM, Bianco JA, Elliott TE. Pre-implementation adaptation of primary care cancer prevention clinical decision support in a predominantly rural healthcare system. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2020 Jun 23;20(1):117. doi: 10.1186/s12911-020-01136-8.
citation: Saman DM, Walton KM, Harry ML, Asche SE, Truitt AR, Henzler-Buckingham HA, Allen CI, Ekstrom HL, O'Connor PJ, Sperl-Hillen JM, Ziegenfuss JY, Bianco JA, Elliott TE. Understanding primary care providers' perceptions of cancer prevention and screening in a predominantly rural healthcare system in the upper Midwest. BMC Health Serv Res. 2019 Dec 30;19(1):1019. doi: 10.1186/s12913-019-4872-9.
citation: Harry ML, Truitt AR, Saman DM, Henzler-Buckingham HA, Allen CI, Walton KM, Ekstrom HL, O'Connor PJ, Sperl-Hillen JM, Bianco JA, Elliott TE. Barriers and facilitators to implementing cancer prevention clinical decision support in primary care: a qualitative study. BMC Health Serv Res. 2019 Jul 31;19(1):534. doi: 10.1186/s12913-019-4326-4.
citation: Harry ML, Asche SE, Freitag LA, Sperl-Hillen JM, Saman DM, Ekstrom HL, Chrenka EA, Truitt AR, Allen CI, O'Connor PJ, Dehmer SP, Bianco JA, Elliott TE. Human Papillomavirus vaccination clinical decision support for young adults in an upper midwestern healthcare system: a clinic cluster-randomized control trial. Hum Vaccin Immunother. 2022 Dec 31;18(1):2040933. doi: 10.1080/21645515.2022.2040933. Epub 2022 Mar 18.
citation: Elliott TE, Asche SE, O'Connor PJ, Dehmer SP, Ekstrom HL, Truitt AR, Chrenka EA, Harry ML, Saman DM, Allen CI, Bianco JA, Freitag LA, Sperl-Hillen JM. Clinical Decision Support with or without Shared Decision Making to Improve Preventive Cancer Care: A Cluster-Randomized Trial. Med Decis Making. 2022 Aug;42(6):808-821. doi: 10.1177/0272989X221082083. Epub 2022 Feb 25.