Implementation of a Centralized Screening Unit at Montefiore-Einstein

Status: Recruiting
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Intervention Type: Other
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY

This study proposes to increase Lung-cancer screening (LCS) in the Bronx, New York. Despite strong evidence that Lung-cancer screening (LCS) can reduce Lung cancer (LCa) deaths, low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) referral rates by clinicians are very low and there is poor adherence with LCS by patients. Both provider and patient barriers may be amenable to systemic improvements in support, coordination and infrastructure for screening. The investigator team hypothesizes that the implementation of a Central Screening Unit (CSU) that shifts routine workflow attributed to LCS (e.g., collection of smoking history, determination of eligibility, shared decision making and arranging follow-up) away from busy practices (usual care) and that offers patients an array of navigation and support services will increase the uptake of LCS guidelines and subsequent low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) screening scans in a low-income, predominately Hispanic and Black catchment area. The proposed study represents a unique opportunity to test this hypothesis in the context of the roll out of a CSU as a significant new component of the Montefiore-Einstein health system. The investigator team will examine whether and how the CSU facilitates LCS uptake and retention of patients. This study is powered to test whether CSU reduces proportion of late-stage lung cancer diagnoses in the Bronx, New York.

Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 50
Maximum Age: 77
Healthy Volunteers: t
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⁃ Clinic level:

• a NYC RING affiliated clinic,

• Opt into and agree to research protocol;

⁃ Patient level:

• Age 50-77 for participants,

• past or current smoker,

• 20+ pack-years tobacco,

• has quit smoking within the last 15 years,

• without chest CT within the past 12 months, and,

• no history of lung cancer or and at least 5 years since the diagnosis of any other malignancy

Locations
United States
New York
Montefiore Medical Center's New York City Research and Improvement Networking Group (NYC RING)
RECRUITING
The Bronx
Contact Information
Primary
H. Dean Hosgood, PhD
dean.hosgood@einsteinmed.edu
203-215-3275
Backup
Yocheved Halberstam, MPH
yocheved.halberstam@einsteinmed.edu
917-833-1070
Time Frame
Start Date: 2025-02-24
Estimated Completion Date: 2029-06
Participants
Target number of participants: 9460
Treatments
Other: Centralized Screening Unit (CSU)
The CSU intervention will shift workflow by leveraging EMR data to direct automated messages to LCS-eligible patients, inviting them to connect with the CSU. The CSU incorporates evidence-based strategies for active outreach to inform patients about LCS and to offer support from lay navigators. Patients are identified through meaningful use of medical records data
No_intervention: No Intervention Yet Started
Standard of Care during the no intervention period
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Leads: Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Collaborators: American Cancer Society, Inc.

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