Methods to Improve Preventative Care Uptake

December 10, 2020 updated by: NYU Langone Health
The proposed study examines whether providing patients with information on the incentives for following the preventative care guidelines available through their insurance has an impact on the update of these preventative services.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

3145

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

    • New York
      • New York, New York, United States, 10016
        • New York University School of Medicine

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Child
  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Patients attributed to the New York University Langone Health Clinically Integrated Network and have Medicare or Medicaid coverage (via Healthfirst) who are due for gaps in care

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Any patients who do not meet the inclusion criteria

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Incentives information provided
Participants will receive a letter that describes the incentives provided by their health plan for following appropriate preventative care guidelines.
No Intervention: No incentives information provided

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Time Frame
% of care gaps closed
Time Frame: Up to 12 months
Up to 12 months

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

August 13, 2018

Primary Completion (Actual)

December 5, 2019

Study Completion (Actual)

December 5, 2019

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

August 3, 2018

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

September 25, 2018

First Posted (Actual)

September 26, 2018

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

December 14, 2020

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

December 10, 2020

Last Verified

December 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

Other Study ID Numbers

  • RCT preventative care

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

This information was retrieved directly from the website clinicaltrials.gov without any changes. If you have any requests to change, remove or update your study details, please contact register@clinicaltrials.gov. As soon as a change is implemented on clinicaltrials.gov, this will be updated automatically on our website as well.

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