MedPage Today October 10, 2023
— Follow-up testing within 120 days was improved with EHR reminders, patient outreach, navigation
A multilevel primary care intervention that included automated electronic health record (EHR) reminders and patient outreach/navigation improved timely follow-up of overdue abnormal cancer screening test results, a cluster randomized trial showed.
Among nearly 12,000 patients with an abnormal screening test result for colorectal, cervical, breast, or lung cancer, completion of follow-up testing within 120 days of study enrollment was significantly higher with EHR reminders, patient outreach, and patient navigation (31.4%) and EHR reminders and patient outreach (31.0%) compared with only EHR reminders (22.7%), and usual care (22.9%), reported Steven J. Atlas, MD, MPH, of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and colleagues.
The adjusted absolute difference for...
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