Behavioral interventions to improve population health outreach for hepatitis C screening: randomized clinical trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate whether opt out framing, messaging incorporating behavioral science concepts, or electronic communication increases the uptake of hepatitis C virus (HCV) screening in patients born between 1945 and 1965.

Design

Pragmatic randomized controlled trial.

Setting

43 primary care practices from one academic health system (Philadelphia, PA, USA) between April 2019 and May 2020.

Participants

Patients born between 1945 and 1965 with no history of screening and at least two primary care visits in the two years before the enrollment period.

Interventions

This multilevel trial was divided into two studies. Substudy A included 1656 eligible patients of 17 primary care clinicians who were randomized in a 1:1 ratio to a mailed letter about HCV scre

SUBMITTER: Mehta SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8129827 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature