A Mobile Patient Health Technology Intervention for Improving Lung Cancer Screening Rates in Eligible High Risk Patients

Summary

To evaluate the real-world effectiveness and implementation strategies for mPATH-Lung, investigators propose a pragmatic, randomized controlled trial across an academic Learning Health System. The trial will contrast several approaches to participant outreach and will specifically target engaging fully powered cohorts of racial/ethnic minorities and rural residents.

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

Eligible patients will:

* Meet the Medicare criteria for lung cancer screening, as updated in February 2022:
* Age 50 - 77 years
* Smoked at least 20 pack years
* Current smoker or quit smoking within the past 15 years
* Be established with a primary care provider within the Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist health network (defined as having completed at least 1 primary care appointment in the past 6 months or have completed at least 2 primary care appointments within the past 18 months or being scheduled to see a health network primary care provider within the next 30 days).
* Have a patient portal account or cellphone number listed in the electronic health record
* Have a North Carolina address listed in the electronic health record

Exclusion Criteria:

The following patients will be excluded:

* Patients flagged as needing a language interpreter in the electronic health record for any language other than Spanish (electronic messages and intervention are deliverable in English or Spanish only)
* Those for whom lung cancer screening would be or may be inappropriate:

electronic health record Prior history of lung cancer electronic health record Chest CT within the last 12 months electronic health record Those meeting the HEDIS COL-E measure exclusion criteria based on significant comorbidities and/or frailty.

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