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Fecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) mailed to patient homes free of charge.

Intervention: Fecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) kits and an invitation letter to complete colorectal cancer screening are mailed to the homes of study eligible patients. A postage paid return mailer is included. Automated and "live" phone call reminders are made at the time of invitation and within one week of invitation. Up to two "live" phone call reminders are attempted 2 to 3 weeks post invitation.

Follow up for patients who return a normal test in Year 1 will consist of repeat screening invitations in Year 2 and Year 3 consistent with guideline recommended annual FIT for colorectal cancer screening. Follow up for patients who return an abnormal test will consist of navigation to complete colonoscopy.

Fecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) mailed to patient homes, plus an incentive to complete the test.

Intervention: FIT kits and invitation letter with a $5 gift card incentive to complete screening are mailed to the homes of 1000 randomly assigned eligible patients. A postage paid return mailer is included. Automated and "live" phone call reminders are made at the time of invitation and within one week of invitation. Up to two "live" phone call reminders are attempted 2 to 3 weeks post invitation.

Follow up for patients who return a normal test in Year 1 will consist of repeat screening invitations in Year 2 and Year 3. Follow up for patients who return an abnormal test will consist of navigation to complete colonoscopy.

Fecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) mailed to patient homes, plus an incentive to complete the test.

Intervention: FIT kits and invitation letter with a $10 gift card incentive to complete screening are mailed to the homes of 1000 randomly assigned eligible patients. A postage paid return mailer is included. Automated and "live" phone call reminders are made at the time of invitation and within one week of invitation. Up to two "live" phone call reminders are attempted 2 to 3 weeks post invitation.

Follow up for patients who return a normal test in Year 1 will consist of repeat screening invitations in Year 2 and Year 3. Follow up for patients who return an abnormal test will consist of navigation to complete colonoscopy.

Patients meeting the inclusion / exclusion criteria are mailed invitations to complete a free colorectal cancer screening. POLYMEDCO Fecal Immunochemical Tests (FIT) are mailed to patient homes with instructions, followed up with live and TELEVOX reminder phone calls.

FIT Invitation Only

Patients meeting the inclusion / exclusion criteria are mailed invitations to complete a free colorectal cancer screening. POLYMEDCO Fecal Immunochemical Tests (FIT) are mailed to patient homes with instructions, followed up with live and TELEVOX reminder phone calls. Patients are offered a small incentive to complete their screening.

FIT plus $5 Incentive

FIT plus $10 Incentive

Keith Argenbright, M.D.

Samir Gupta, M.D.

Through this program, the investigators will test a systematic colon cancer screening outreach strategy for increasing screening completion among uninsured patients, not up-to-date with screening. The intervention will consist of mailed screening invitations, with processes such as phone reminders to promote screening and evidence based follow up. All patients will be randomly assigned to receive mailed invitations to complete a home fecal immunochemical test (FIT). Some patients will be randomly assigned to receive a small financial incentive on completion of FIT testing.

All patients meeting inclusion/exclusion criteria will receive mailed invitation and FIT kit to complete screening, with processes to promote screening completion. The list of eligible patients will be divided into 5 groups so that the expected group of 10,000 patients will receive invitations spread out in time, so as to avoid overwhelming the system. The invitation letters emphasize importance of colorectal cancer screening, encourage the patient to complete FIT screening with the enclosed FIT kit, and will be signed by John Pter Smith (JPS) investigators as representatives of JPS primary care physicians.

The invitation kit will include a 1-sample POLYMEDCO Sensor FIT, including simplified instructions on how to perform the test, as well as a return mailer with prepaid postage. Diet/medication restriction will not be required. Kits will be returned to JPS and processed per manufacturer recommendations.

Automated and "live" phone call reminders to encourage screening completion will be sent at time of invite and within week 1 of the invitation. Up to two "live" phone call reminders will be attempted 2 to 3 weeks post invitation, using English and Spanish standard scripts.

Follow up for patients with a normal test in Year 1 will consist of repeat screening invitations in Year 2 and Year 3 consistent with guideline recommended annual FIT for colorectal screening. Follow up for patients with an abnormal FIT will consist of navigation to complete a colonoscopy. Patients with abnormal FIT will be called by the screening team within 1 week to report the result and facilitate direct scheduling of colonoscopy or a pre-colonoscopy visit. Follow up of patients with a colorectal cancer will consist of navigation to first treatment consultation visit. A surgery or oncology clinic follow up will be scheduled for all patients with a colorectal cancer diagnosis if such follow up is not already scheduled by the colonoscopist who diagnosed the colorectal cancer. Reminder calls for these visits will be made daily for up to one week.

A group of 2,000 individuals will be randomly assigned to receive a modest financial incentive to complete screening, in addition to the organized outreach program. The incentive will consist of a gift card in one of two small dollar amounts to a local retailer. Incentives will be mailed by the JPS outreach team, in exchange for successful FIT completion, after the FIT has been returned.

Follow up for determining screening completion for all included patients will be through the end of Year 3 regardless of whether or not patients respond to screening invitations. Once included, patients will remain in the program unless they no longer meet age criteria. Patients in both the standard (non-incentive) and incentive invitation groups who do not respond to initial invitation will be followed for screening outcomes, but will not receive repeat invitations. For patients who die on follow up or who do not have additional health system encounters, follow up will be censored at time of death or last health encounter, respectively.

Each year, patients who newly meet our inclusion/exclusion criteria will be included in the program. For example, patients newly turning 50 in year 2 or 3 meeting all other inclusion/exclusion criteria will receive screening outreach. Similarly, a 60 year old patient new to the JPS system and meeting inclusion/exclusion criteria will also receive screening outreach.

Evidence-Based Colorectal Cancer Screening for the Uninsured

Primary outcome was analyzed using an intent-to-screen approach where a 2-sided P-value \<0.05 was considered statistically significant. Patients were randomly assigned to one of 3 groups: outreach only, outreach + $5 incentive upon FIT return, and outreach + $10 incentive upon FIT return. For analysis, incentive groups were combined and compared to outreach alone.

Patients were randomly assigned to one of 3 groups: outreach only, outreach + $5 incentive upon FIT return, and outreach + $10 incentive upon FIT return. In year 4, use of financial incentives were discontinued and all patients with a normal result in year 3 were invited to complete a FIT using outreach only, regardless of their original intervention group.

Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

No adverse events were experienced by subjects during this research.

Fecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) mailed to patient homes free of charge. Fecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) kits and an invitation letter to complete colorectal cancer screening are mailed to the homes of study eligible patients. A postage paid return mailer is included. Automated and "live" phone call reminders are made at the time of invitation and within 1 week of invitation. Up to two "live" phone call reminders are attempted 2 to 3 weeks post invitation.

FIT Invitation Only, No Incentive

Fecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) mailed to patient homes, plus an incentive to complete the test. FIT kits and invitation letter with a gift card incentive in one of two small dollar amounts to complete screening are mailed to the homes of 2000 (1000 per group) randomly assigned eligible patients. A postage paid return mailer is included. Automated and "live" phone call reminders are made at the time of invitation and within 1 week of invitation. Up to two "live" phone call reminders are attempted 2 to 3 weeks post invitation.

FIT Plus $5 Incentive

FIT Plus $10 Incentive

Fecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) mailed to patient homes free of charge. Fecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) kits and an invitation letter to complete colorectal cancer screening are mailed to the homes of study eligible patients. A postage paid return mailer is included. Automated and "live" phone call reminders are made at the time of invitation and within one week of invitation. Up to two "live" phone call reminders are attempted 2 to 3 weeks post invitation.

Follow up for patients who return a normal test in Year 1 will consist of repeat screening invitations in Year 2 and Year 3 consistent with guideline recommended annual FIT for colorectal cancer screening. Follow up for patients who return an abnormal test will consist of navigation to complete colonoscopy.

FIT Invitation Only: Patients meeting the inclusion / exclusion criteria are mailed invitations to complete a free colorectal cancer screening. POLYMEDCO Fecal Immunochemical Tests (FIT) are mailed to patient homes.

Fecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) mailed to patient homes, plus an incentive to complete the test. FIT kits and invitation letter with a gift card incentive in one of two small dollar amounts to complete screening are mailed to the homes of 2000 (1000 per group) randomly assigned eligible patients. A postage paid return mailer is included. Automated and "live" phone call reminders are made at the time of invitation and within one week of invitation. Up to two "live" phone call reminders are attempted 2 to 3 weeks post invitation.

Follow up for patients who return a normal test in Year 1 will consist of repeat screening invitations in Year 2 and Year 3. Follow up for patients who return an abnormal test will consist of navigation to complete colonoscopy.

FIT plus Incentive: Patients meeting the inclusion / exclusion criteria are mailed invitations to complete a free colorectal cancer screening. POLYMEDCO Fecal Immunochemical Tests (FIT) are mailed to patient homes.

Total

Age, Continuous

Sex: Female, Male

White

Black

Hispanic

Asian

Other

Unknown

Race/Ethnicity, Customized

Baseline participants meeting inclusion criteria were randomized and invited in Year 1.

We focused exclusively on an uninsured low-income population and offered relatively modest incentives. Thus, our results may not be generalizable to other populations or incentive amounts.

Dr. Keith Argenbright, Director, Moncrief Cancer Institute

Year 1 Screening Rate

Year 2 Screening Rate

Year 3 Screening Rate

Fecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) kits and an invitation letter to complete colorectal cancer screening are mailed to the homes of study eligible patients. A postage paid return mailer is included. Automated and "live" phone call reminders are made at the time of invitation and within one week of invitation. Up to two "live" phone call reminders are attempted 2 to 3 weeks post invitation.

Standard Invite

The denominator population for evaluating baseline and end of Year 3 screening rates will consist of patients meeting the following criteria: 1) Age 50-64, 2) Uninsured, but participants in JPS's medical assistance program for the uninsured, 3) One or more visits to a JPS primary care clinic within a year, 4) Address and phone number on file, 5) No history of CRC or colon resection, 6) Not incarcerated

Incentive Invite

If FIT is positive, patients are routed to appropriate treatment. If FIT is negative, patients mailed invitations in the following year.

FIT Completion Among Patients Offered Any Incentive vs. Outreach Alone Each Year

Year 1 Initial Screening Rate

Year 2 Repeat Screening Rate

Year 3 Repeat Screening Rate

Fecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) mailed to patient homes free of charge. Fecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) kits and an invitation letter to complete colorectal cancer screening are mailed to the homes of study eligible patients. A postage paid return mailer is included. Automated and "live" phone call reminders are made at the time of invitation and within one week of invitation. Up to two "live" phone call reminders are attempted 2 to 3 weeks post invitation.

Follow up for patients who return a normal test in Year 1 will consist of repeat screening invitations in Year 2 and Year 3 consistent with guideline recommended annual FIT for colorectal cancer screening. Follow up for patients who return an abnormal test will consist of navigation to complete colonoscopy.

$5 Incentive Invitation

$10 Incentive Invite

The outreach included: (i) a mailed invitation to complete and return the FIT in English and Spanish; (ii) a 1-sample Polymedco OC Sensor FIT test; (iii) 2 automated telephone reminders in English and Spanish at the time invitations were mailed and 1 week later, encouraging test completion; and (iv) up to 2 live telephone reminders within 3 weeks of the invitation mailing, if the FIT was not returned or if the patient had not been reached during earlier attempts.

Outreach Alone

Patients were re-invited after participation in previous year and had a negative FIT result.

FIT Completion for Groups Offered $5 vs. Outreach Alone, $10 vs. Outreach Alone, and $5 vs. $10 Incentive

Fecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) mailed to patient homes free of charge. Fecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) kits and an invitation letter to complete colorectal cancer screening are mailed to the homes of study eligible patients. A postage paid return mailer is included. Automated and "live" phone call reminders are made at the time of invitation and within 1 week of invitation. Up to two "live" phone call reminders are attempted 2 to 3 weeks post invitation.

Follow up for patients who return a normal test in Year 1 will consist of repeat screening invitations in Year 2 and Year 3 consistent with guideline recommended annual FIT for colorectal cancer screening. Follow up for patients who return an abnormal test will consist of navigation to complete colonoscopy.

Fecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) mailed to patient homes, plus an $5 gift card incentive to complete the test. FIT kits and invitation letter with a gift card incentive to complete screening are mailed to the homes of 1000 randomly assigned eligible patients. A postage paid return mailer is included. Automated and "live" phone call reminders are made at the time of invitation and within 1 week of invitation. Up to two "live" phone call reminders are attempted 2 to 3 weeks post invitation.

Follow up for patients who return a normal test in Year 1 will consist of repeat screening invitations in Year 2 and Year 3. Follow up for patients who return an abnormal test will consist of navigation to complete colonoscopy.

Fecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) mailed to patient homes, plus an $10 gift card incentive to complete the test. FIT kits and invitation letter with a gift card incentive to complete screening are mailed to the homes of 1000 randomly assigned eligible patients. A postage paid return mailer is included. Automated and "live" phone call reminders are made at the time of invitation and within 1 week of invitation. Up to two "live" phone call reminders are attempted 2 to 3 weeks post invitation.

Follow up for patients who return a normal test in Year 1 will consist of repeat screening invitations in Year 2 and Year 3. Follow up for patients who return an abnormal test will consist of navigation to complete colonoscopy.

Spots Global Cancer Trial Database for fit plus $5 incentive