Do reminder emails and past due notifications improve patient completion and institutional data submission for patient-reported outcome measures?

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

NRG Oncology, part of the National Cancer Institute's National Clinical Trials Network, took efforts to increase patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) completion and institutional data submission rates within clinical trials. Lack of completion diminishes power to draw conclusions and can be a waste of resources. It is hypothesized that trials with automatic email reminders and past due notifications will have PROM forms submitted more timely with higher patient completion.

Methods

Automatic emails sent to the research associate were added to selected NRG Oncology trials. Comparisons between trials with and without automatic emails were analyzed using Chi-square tests with respect to patient completion and timeliness of form submission rates. Multivariable analys

SUBMITTER: Pugh SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7855823 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature