A cluster-randomized trial of a primary care informatics-based system for breast cancer screening.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Information technology offers the promise, as yet unfulfilled, of delivering efficient, evidence-based health care.

Objective

To evaluate whether a primary care network-based informatics intervention can improve breast cancer screening rates.

Design

Cluster-randomized controlled trial of 12 primary care practices conducted from March 20, 2007 to March 19, 2008.

Patients

Women 42-69 years old with no record of a mammogram in the prior 2 years.

Interventions

In intervention practices, a population-based informatics system was implemented that: connected overdue patients to appropriate care providers, presented providers with a Web-based list of their overdue patients in a non-visit-based setting, and enabled "one-click" mammography ordering or d

SUBMITTER: Atlas SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3019316 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature