Family CharacteristicsNCT00977847
Integrating Patient Generated Family Health History From Varied Electronic Health Record (EHR) Entry Portals
A study testing Electronic Health Portals for collecting Family History data in people with Family Characteristics and Health Status, run by Brigham and Women's Hospital at 1 site in United States.
Trial summary
In the 21st century, the importance of family health history will increase as it will be essential to put detailed personal genetic information into the context of an individual's health, namely the context of how the shared code has played out in an individual and his/her closest relatives. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 18 to 75 yearsHealthy volunteers can take part
- Conditions the study is for
- Family Characteristics, Health Status, Family Research
- What is being tested?
- Electronic Health Portals for collecting Family History data
- Type of treatment
- Pill or oral medicine
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 5,000 participants
- Where
- 1 siteUnited States
- Study dates
- Nov 2010to Mar 2012
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- None posted in the registry
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 18 to 75 years
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
- Male and Female Patients who:
- receive primary care at one of the study selected Primary Care Practices,
- are between 18-75 years old,
- are English or Spanish speakers, and
- have appointments scheduled in the upcoming 1 - 3 months for an annual or comprehensive visit.
Who cannot join
- We will not include individuals over the age of 75 because the role of family risk assessment and prevention is less established.
- Also will not include non-English or non-Spanish speakers.
- Patients will also be excluded if they are hearing impaired.
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
United States1 site
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, 02120
About this study
Official title: Integrating Patient Generated Family Health History From Varied Electronic Health Record Entry Portals
In the 21st century, the importance of family health history will increase as it will be essential to put detailed personal genetic information into the context of an individual's health, namely the context of how the shared code has played out in an individual and his/her closest relatives. These scientific developments in the investigators' understanding of genetics will demand a more comprehensive family history dataset for all patients, and the time limitations on healthcare providers demand a technology-driven solution that integrates an individual's knowledge of their family history with the medical records maintained by their health care providers. A solution does not currently exist by which most Americans can organize their family health history and then place it into their electronic health record (EHR). The investigators propose to develop and compare three different ways of proactively collecting family history information from patients using computer technology independent of a health care visit, including telephone (interactive voice response technology), tablet computers in a physician's waiting room, and a secure internet portal at home. These tools will be based on the US Surgeon General's My Family Health Portrait, an electronic family history collection tool. Family history data will be transferred and integrated with a patient's EHR in a large primary care network. This project will seek to demonstrate that family history data can be accurately reported by diverse patients using these technologies, and that these data can be integrated to tailor an individual's health care based on their familial risk.
Read the detailed description
Background: The long established wisdom of including family health history as a key part of an individual's medical record has been invigorated by the new emphasis on personalized medicine. While in the past, family health history was used to understand an individual's disease risk and to focus disease prevention efforts, in 21st century medicine, family health history's importance will increase as it will be essential to put detailed personal genetic information into a clinical context, namely the context of how the shared code has played out in a person's closest relatives. This new need for family health history will demand a more comprehensive family history dataset for all patients, and the time limitations faced by healthcare providers demand a technology-driven solution whereby the patient performs primary data entry and the provider then refines these data. Solutions do not currently exist by which most Americans can organize their family health history and then place it into their electronic health record (EHR). My Family Health Portrait (MFHP) is an open source, electronic family history collection tool developed by the Surgeon General that offers interoperability with EHRs, yet to our knowledge has not been widely integrated because of limitations in the capacity of many EHRs to accept these data, and barriers to the systematic collection of these data in clinical practice. Additionally, obstacles exist for those individuals who are not computer literate or do not have access to a home computer. In order to capture patient-generated family history data across diverse patient populations, EHR's may need to offer patients a variety of data entry options which allow for differences in preference, convenience, computer literacy, and computer availability. This proposal seeks to develop new resources for family history data entry into the EHR. These resources will be developed, tested and validated in a primary care setting within of a large complex healthcare system.
Research Plan: The proposed project will examine the reach, effectiveness, adoption and implementation of three innovative portals to transfer and integrate patient generated family history data with an EHR.
Specific Aim 1 (technical development) is to develop the three portals for entry of patient generated family history data integrated with an EHR. The pathways will include: : (1) computer tablets in waiting rooms to complete the MFHP, (2) a secure internet portal to transfer data collected by patients at home using MFHP, and (3) an interactive voice response (IVR) system to collect the necessary data elements by phone. Each of these modalities will interface with the EHR of a large health delivery system using current data standards. Each of these modalities will be designed to interface with the EHR of a large health delivery system using current data standards using current data standards.
Specific Aim 2 (content development and validation) is to evaluate facilitators and barriers to the adoption, and implementation of these three electronic portals by assessing differences in patient preferences, privacy concerns, convenience, and understanding. The validity of the family history data collected by each of these three portals will also be assessed by a genetic counselor.
Specific Aim 3 (pilot randomized controlled trial) is to conduct a 4-armed pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) to measure the reach and effectiveness of integrating this family history data with a patient's EHR. The trial will examine and compare changes in family history documentation, patient-doctor discussion of family history, and patient and provider satisfaction with each data entry portal described in Aim 1, as well as a control arm. The trial will be conducted as a pilot cluster RCT in selected practices within the Brigham and Women's Primary Care Practice-Based Research Network.
Potential Impact: The impact of obtaining accurate family history data and integrating this with an individual's health record are substantial, and will be of growing importance as our understanding of the genome advances. This project will ultimately contribute to a better understanding of how available technologies can be integrated with EHR's to obtain accurate family history in ways that allow for widespread acquisition and integration of accurate family history data in a variety of settings and diverse patient populations. The technology and lessons learned from this project will be exportable to healthcare settings throughout the United States.
- Conditions
- Family Characteristics, Health Status, Family Research
- Being tested
- Electronic Health Portals for collecting Family History data
- Keywords
- Family History, Electronic Health Record
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
Electronic Health Portals for collecting Family History dataOther
Comparison of multiple portals for integrating patient generated family history data into the electronic health record.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Interactive Voice Response Practice | Experimental | The introductory letter to patients will allow them an opportunity to "opt-out" of the study using a toll-free number. If they do not opt-out within 2 weeks of receiving the letter, the IVR system will make up to 15 call attempts over a 2 week period to reach the patient. The system will make outbound calls during preset hours. The system continuously checks the call list for the next scheduled call. Once contact is made, the spoken script greets the patient by name, authenticates identify, and will ask the patient the programmed questions. The IVR server will send completed family history assessments to the patients EHR as an HL7 compliant summary note as well as transmitting the separate coded responses for each condition/ family member to coded family history fields in the EHR. Receives: Other: Electronic Health Portals for collecting Family History data |
| Wireless Tablet PC Practice | Experimental | Patients will receive an info letter in advance of their visit explaining the project with description of what information they will be asked to provide. Study staff will train the practice staff to hand out and collect the tablets for the patient. Staff will be trained to verify a patient's identity to ensure that the family history is sent to the correct EHR record. The initial screen of the tablet PC portal will include a paragraph of informed consent, and patients in this practice will be given the opportunity to decline participation. For patients who participate, the completed family history data will be transmitted to the patient's EHR as an HL7 compliant note and transmitting separate coded responses for each condition/ family member to coded family history fields. Receives: Other: Electronic Health Portals for collecting Family History data |
| Internet Portal Practice | Experimental | Patients in this practice will receive the informational letter either by email or mail one month before their scheduled visit. It will have directions to access the MFHP website and how to transfer data through the hospitals secure internet portal (Patient Gateway). About 1/3 of patients are signed up to use this service. Those who do not have a Patient Gateway account will be provided with directions on how to establish this service. Patients will be required to have a Gateway account to ensure that the MFHP data file is sent securely to the correct EHR record. Patients in this arm will receive an initial email or letter with a single follow-up reminder sent 2 weeks later. For patients who participate, the completed family history data will be transmitted to the patient's EHR. Receives: Other: Electronic Health Portals for collecting Family History data |
| Usual Care Physician Assesment Practice | Active comparator | Usual standard family history assessments will be conducted by physicians during the patient visit. This arm will allow us to account for any temporal trends in family history assessment. Receives: Other: Electronic Health Portals for collecting Family History data |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Project will seek to demonstrate that family history data can be accurately reported by 5000 diverse patients using three portals, and that these data can be used to tailor an individual's health care based on their familial risk.
Measured: 2.5 years
Secondary outcomes (4)
Develop three portals for collection of patient generated family history data integrated with an EHR: computer tablets in waiting rooms; a secure internet portal for use at home; and an interactive voice response system to get data by phone.
Measured: 1.5 years
Evaluate facilitators and barriers to adoption and implementation of these portals by assessing differences in patient preferences, privacy, convenience, and understanding. Validate data collected by each portal by a genetic counselor.
Measured: 1.5 years
To conduct a 4-armed pilot RCT to measure the reach and effectiveness of integrating family history data with a patient's EHR.
Measured: 2 years
For patients in the RCT who report a family history that is associated with an increased risk of coronary artery disease, we will examine how often their physician initiates screening and/ or primary prevention based on the family history information.
Measured: 2 years
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted16 Sep 2009 (estimated)
- Study startNov 2010
- Primary completionMar 2012
- Study completionMar 2012
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Publications (20)Papers the sponsor has linked to this study.
- Other trials for Family CharacteristicsStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- More trials run by Brigham and Women's HospitalThe sponsor's other registered studies.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Health services research
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Enrolment
- 5,000 participants (estimated)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Principal investigator, Jennifer S. Haas, MD, MSPH, Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Investigators
- Jennifer S Haas, MD, MSPH, Principal investigator, Brigham and Women's Hospital
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT00977847
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- 2009P0011908
- Other IDs
- 1RC1HG005331-01
- Status last verified
- Mar 2012
- First submitted
- 14 Sep 2009
- Last updated
- 20 Mar 2012
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
Publications
Yoon PW, Scheuner MT, Peterson-Oehlke KL, Gwinn M, Faucett A, Khoury MJ. Can family history be used as a tool for public health and preventive medicine? Genet Med. 2002 Jul-Aug;4(4):304-10. doi: 10.1097/00125817-200207000-00009. No abstract available.
PubMed 12172397Sabatino SA, McCarthy EP, Phillips RS, Burns RB. Breast cancer risk assessment and management in primary care: provider attitudes, practices, and barriers. Cancer Detect Prev. 2007;31(5):375-83. doi: 10.1016/j.cdp.2007.08.003. Epub 2007 Nov 26.
PubMed 18037249Acheson LS, Wiesner GL, Zyzanski SJ, Goodwin MA, Stange KC. Family history-taking in community family practice: implications for genetic screening. Genet Med. 2000 May-Jun;2(3):180-5. doi: 10.1097/00125817-200005000-00004.
PubMed 11256663Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Awareness of family health history as a risk factor for disease--United States, 2004. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2004 Nov 12;53(44):1044-7.
PubMed 15538320Qureshi N, Wilson B, Santaguida P, Carroll J, Allanson J, Culebro CR, Brouwers M, Raina P. Collection and use of cancer family history in primary care. Evid Rep Technol Assess (Full Rep). 2007 Oct;(159):1-84.
PubMed 18457477Wagner EH, Austin BT, Von Korff M. Organizing care for patients with chronic illness. Milbank Q. 1996;74(4):511-44.
PubMed 8941260Glasgow RE, McKay HG, Piette JD, Reynolds KD. The RE-AIM framework for evaluating interventions: what can it tell us about approaches to chronic illness management? Patient Educ Couns. 2001 Aug;44(2):119-27. doi: 10.1016/s0738-3991(00)00186-5.
PubMed 11479052Glasgow RE, Vogt TM, Boles SM. Evaluating the public health impact of health promotion interventions: the RE-AIM framework. Am J Public Health. 1999 Sep;89(9):1322-7. doi: 10.2105/ajph.89.9.1322.
PubMed 10474547Acheson LS, Zyzanski SJ, Stange KC, Deptowicz A, Wiesner GL. Validation of a self-administered, computerized tool for collecting and displaying the family history of cancer. J Clin Oncol. 2006 Dec 1;24(34):5395-402. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2006.07.2462. Epub 2006 Nov 6.
PubMed 17088568Scheuner MT, Wang SJ, Raffel LJ, Larabell SK, Rotter JI. Family history: a comprehensive genetic risk assessment method for the chronic conditions of adulthood. Am J Med Genet. 1997 Aug 22;71(3):315-24. doi: 10.1002/(sici)1096-8628(19970822)71:33.0.co;2-n.
PubMed 9268102Karliner LS, Napoles-Springer A, Kerlikowske K, Haas JS, Gregorich SE, Kaplan CP. Missed opportunities: family history and behavioral risk factors in breast cancer risk assessment among a multiethnic group of women. J Gen Intern Med. 2007 Mar;22(3):308-14. doi: 10.1007/s11606-006-0087-y.
PubMed 17356960Kaplan CP, Haas JS, Perez-Stable EJ, Gregorich SE, Somkin C, Des Jarlais G, Kerlikowske K. Breast cancer risk reduction options: awareness, discussion, and use among women from four ethnic groups. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2006 Jan;15(1):162-6. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-04-0758.
PubMed 16434605Murff HJ, Byrne D, Haas JS, Puopolo AL, Brennan TA. Race and family history assessment for breast cancer. J Gen Intern Med. 2005 Jan;20(1):75-80. doi: 10.1111/j.1525-1497.2004.40112.x.
PubMed 15693932Weingart SN, Hamrick HE, Tutkus S, Carbo A, Sands DZ, Tess A, Davis RB, Bates DW, Phillips RS. Medication safety messages for patients via the web portal: the MedCheck intervention. Int J Med Inform. 2008 Mar;77(3):161-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2007.04.007. Epub 2007 Jun 19.
PubMed 17581772Adler-Milstein J, Bates DW, Jha AK. U.S. Regional health information organizations: progress and challenges. Health Aff (Millwood). 2009 Mar-Apr;28(2):483-92. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.28.2.483.
PubMed 19276008
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 20 Mar 2012. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Integrating Patient Generated Family Health History From Varied Electronic Health Record Entry Portals
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT00977847
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- 2009P0011908
- Conditions
- Family Characteristics, Health Status, Family Research
- Keywords
- Family History, Electronic Health Record
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Enrolment
- 5,000 participants (estimated)
- Lead sponsor
- Brigham and Women's HospitalUniversity, hospital or other
- Study start
- Nov 2010
- Primary completion
- Mar 2012 (actual)
- Study completion
- Mar 2012 (actual)
- First posted
- 16 Sep 2009 (estimated)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
In the 21st century, the importance of family health history will increase as it will be essential to put detailed personal genetic information into the context of an individual's health, namely the context of how the shared code has played out in an individual and his/her closest relatives. These scientific developments in the investigators' understanding of genetics will demand a more comprehensive family history dataset for all patients, and the time limitations on healthcare providers demand a technology-driven solution that integrates an individual's knowledge of their family history with the medical records maintained by their health care providers. A solution does not currently exist by which most Americans can organize their family health history and then place it into their electronic health record (EHR). The investigators propose to develop and compare three different ways of proactively collecting family history information from patients using computer technology independent of a health care visit, including telephone (interactive voice response technology), tablet computers in a physician's waiting room, and a secure internet portal at home. These tools will be based on the US Surgeon General's My Family Health Portrait, an electronic family history collection tool. Family history data will be transferred and integrated with a patient's EHR in a large primary care network. This project will seek to demonstrate that family history data can be accurately reported by diverse patients using these technologies, and that these data can be integrated to tailor an individual's health care based on their familial risk.
Detailed description
Background: The long established wisdom of including family health history as a key part of an individual's medical record has been invigorated by the new emphasis on personalized medicine. While in the past, family health history was used to understand an individual's disease risk and to focus disease prevention efforts, in 21st century medicine, family health history's importance will increase as it will be essential to put detailed personal genetic information into a clinical context, namely the context of how the shared code has played out in a person's closest relatives. This new need for family health history will demand a more comprehensive family history dataset for all patients, and the time limitations faced by healthcare providers demand a technology-driven solution whereby the patient performs primary data entry and the provider then refines these data. Solutions do not currently exist by which most Americans can organize their family health history and then place it into their electronic health record (EHR). My Family Health Portrait (MFHP) is an open source, electronic family history collection tool developed by the Surgeon General that offers interoperability with EHRs, yet to our knowledge has not been widely integrated because of limitations in the capacity of many EHRs to accept these data, and barriers to the systematic collection of these data in clinical practice. Additionally, obstacles exist for those individuals who are not computer literate or do not have access to a home computer. In order to capture patient-generated family history data across diverse patient populations, EHR's may need to offer patients a variety of data entry options which allow for differences in preference, convenience, computer literacy, and computer availability. This proposal seeks to develop new resources for family history data entry into the EHR. These resources will be developed, tested and validated in a primary care setting within of a large complex healthcare system.
Research Plan: The proposed project will examine the reach, effectiveness, adoption and implementation of three innovative portals to transfer and integrate patient generated family history data with an EHR.
Specific Aim 1 (technical development) is to develop the three portals for entry of patient generated family history data integrated with an EHR. The pathways will include: : (1) computer tablets in waiting rooms to complete the MFHP, (2) a secure internet portal to transfer data collected by patients at home using MFHP, and (3) an interactive voice response (IVR) system to collect the necessary data elements by phone. Each of these modalities will interface with the EHR of a large health delivery system using current data standards. Each of these modalities will be designed to interface with the EHR of a large health delivery system using current data standards using current data standards.
Specific Aim 2 (content development and validation) is to evaluate facilitators and barriers to the adoption, and implementation of these three electronic portals by assessing differences in patient preferences, privacy concerns, convenience, and understanding. The validity of the family history data collected by each of these three portals will also be assessed by a genetic counselor.
Specific Aim 3 (pilot randomized controlled trial) is to conduct a 4-armed pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) to measure the reach and effectiveness of integrating this family history data with a patient's EHR. The trial will examine and compare changes in family history documentation, patient-doctor discussion of family history, and patient and provider satisfaction with each data entry portal described in Aim 1, as well as a control arm. The trial will be conducted as a pilot cluster RCT in selected practices within the Brigham and Women's Primary Care Practice-Based Research Network.
Potential Impact: The impact of obtaining accurate family history data and integrating this with an individual's health record are substantial, and will be of growing importance as our understanding of the genome advances. This project will ultimately contribute to a better understanding of how available technologies can be integrated with EHR's to obtain accurate family history in ways that allow for widespread acquisition and integration of accurate family history data in a variety of settings and diverse patient populations. The technology and lessons learned from this project will be exportable to healthcare settings throughout the United States.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Health services research
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Number of arms
- 4
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Interactive Voice Response Practice | Experimental | Other: Electronic Health Portals for collecting Family History dataThe introductory letter to patients will allow them an opportunity to "opt-out" of the study using a toll-free number. If they do not opt-out within 2 weeks of receiving the letter, the IVR system will make up to 15 call attempts over a 2 week period to reach the patient. The system will make outbound calls during preset hours. The system continuously checks the call list for the next scheduled call. Once contact is made, the spoken script greets the patient by name, authenticates identify, and will ask the patient the programmed questions. The IVR server will send completed family history assessments to the patients EHR as an HL7 compliant summary note as well as transmitting the separate coded responses for each condition/ family member to coded family history fields in the EHR. |
| Wireless Tablet PC Practice | Experimental | Other: Electronic Health Portals for collecting Family History dataPatients will receive an info letter in advance of their visit explaining the project with description of what information they will be asked to provide. Study staff will train the practice staff to hand out and collect the tablets for the patient. Staff will be trained to verify a patient's identity to ensure that the family history is sent to the correct EHR record. The initial screen of the tablet PC portal will include a paragraph of informed consent, and patients in this practice will be given the opportunity to decline participation. For patients who participate, the completed family history data will be transmitted to the patient's EHR as an HL7 compliant note and transmitting separate coded responses for each condition/ family member to coded family history fields. |
| Internet Portal Practice | Experimental | Other: Electronic Health Portals for collecting Family History dataPatients in this practice will receive the informational letter either by email or mail one month before their scheduled visit. It will have directions to access the MFHP website and how to transfer data through the hospitals secure internet portal (Patient Gateway). About 1/3 of patients are signed up to use this service. Those who do not have a Patient Gateway account will be provided with directions on how to establish this service. Patients will be required to have a Gateway account to ensure that the MFHP data file is sent securely to the correct EHR record. Patients in this arm will receive an initial email or letter with a single follow-up reminder sent 2 weeks later. For patients who participate, the completed family history data will be transmitted to the patient's EHR. |
| Usual Care Physician Assesment Practice | Active comparator | Other: Electronic Health Portals for collecting Family History dataUsual standard family history assessments will be conducted by physicians during the patient visit. This arm will allow us to account for any temporal trends in family history assessment. |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 18 to 75 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Age groups
- Adult, Older adult
Key inclusion criteria (5 listed)
- receive primary care at one of the study selected Primary Care Practices,
- are between 18-75 years old,
- are English or Spanish speakers, and
- have appointments scheduled in the upcoming 1 - 3 months for an annual or comprehensive visit.
Key exclusion criteria (3 listed)
- We will not include individuals over the age of 75 because the role of family risk assessment and prevention is less established.
- Also will not include non-English or non-Spanish speakers.
- Patients will also be excluded if they are hearing impaired.
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| Electronic Health Portals for collecting Family History dataComparison of multiple portals for integrating patient generated family history data into the electronic health record. | Other | Interactive Voice Response Practice, Internet Portal Practice, Usual Care Physician Assesment Practice, Wireless Tablet PC Practice |
Primary outcome
Project will seek to demonstrate that family history data can be accurately reported by 5000 diverse patients using three portals, and that these data can be used to tailor an individual's health care based on their familial risk.
Time frame: 2.5 years
4 secondary outcomes
Develop three portals for collection of patient generated family history data integrated with an EHR: computer tablets in waiting rooms; a secure internet portal for use at home; and an interactive voice response system to get data by phone.
Time frame: 1.5 years
Evaluate facilitators and barriers to adoption and implementation of these portals by assessing differences in patient preferences, privacy, convenience, and understanding. Validate data collected by each portal by a genetic counselor.
Time frame: 1.5 years
To conduct a 4-armed pilot RCT to measure the reach and effectiveness of integrating family history data with a patient's EHR.
Time frame: 2 years
For patients in the RCT who report a family history that is associated with an increased risk of coronary artery disease, we will examine how often their physician initiates screening and/ or primary prevention based on the family history information.
Time frame: 2 years
Results and safety
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 20 Mar 2012.
- Background: PubMed 12172397Yoon PW, Scheuner MT, Peterson-Oehlke KL, Gwinn M, Faucett A, Khoury MJ. Can family history be used as a tool for public health and preventive medicine? Genet Med. 2002 Jul-Aug;4(4):304-10. doi: 10.1097/00125817-200207000-00009. No abstract available.
- Background: PubMed 18037249Sabatino SA, McCarthy EP, Phillips RS, Burns RB. Breast cancer risk assessment and management in primary care: provider attitudes, practices, and barriers. Cancer Detect Prev. 2007;31(5):375-83. doi: 10.1016/j.cdp.2007.08.003. Epub 2007 Nov 26.
- Background: PubMed 11256663Acheson LS, Wiesner GL, Zyzanski SJ, Goodwin MA, Stange KC. Family history-taking in community family practice: implications for genetic screening. Genet Med. 2000 May-Jun;2(3):180-5. doi: 10.1097/00125817-200005000-00004.
- Background: PubMed 15538320Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Awareness of family health history as a risk factor for disease--United States, 2004. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2004 Nov 12;53(44):1044-7.
- Background: PubMed 18457477Qureshi N, Wilson B, Santaguida P, Carroll J, Allanson J, Culebro CR, Brouwers M, Raina P. Collection and use of cancer family history in primary care. Evid Rep Technol Assess (Full Rep). 2007 Oct;(159):1-84.
- Background: PubMed 8941260Wagner EH, Austin BT, Von Korff M. Organizing care for patients with chronic illness. Milbank Q. 1996;74(4):511-44.
- Background: PubMed 11479052Glasgow RE, McKay HG, Piette JD, Reynolds KD. The RE-AIM framework for evaluating interventions: what can it tell us about approaches to chronic illness management? Patient Educ Couns. 2001 Aug;44(2):119-27. doi: 10.1016/s0738-3991(00)00186-5.
- Background: PubMed 10474547Glasgow RE, Vogt TM, Boles SM. Evaluating the public health impact of health promotion interventions: the RE-AIM framework. Am J Public Health. 1999 Sep;89(9):1322-7. doi: 10.2105/ajph.89.9.1322.
- Background: PubMed 17088568Acheson LS, Zyzanski SJ, Stange KC, Deptowicz A, Wiesner GL. Validation of a self-administered, computerized tool for collecting and displaying the family history of cancer. J Clin Oncol. 2006 Dec 1;24(34):5395-402. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2006.07.2462. Epub 2006 Nov 6.
- Background: PubMed 9268102Scheuner MT, Wang SJ, Raffel LJ, Larabell SK, Rotter JI. Family history: a comprehensive genetic risk assessment method for the chronic conditions of adulthood. Am J Med Genet. 1997 Aug 22;71(3):315-24. doi: 10.1002/(sici)1096-8628(19970822)71:33.0.co;2-n.
- Background: PubMed 17356960Karliner LS, Napoles-Springer A, Kerlikowske K, Haas JS, Gregorich SE, Kaplan CP. Missed opportunities: family history and behavioral risk factors in breast cancer risk assessment among a multiethnic group of women. J Gen Intern Med. 2007 Mar;22(3):308-14. doi: 10.1007/s11606-006-0087-y.
- Background: PubMed 16434605Kaplan CP, Haas JS, Perez-Stable EJ, Gregorich SE, Somkin C, Des Jarlais G, Kerlikowske K. Breast cancer risk reduction options: awareness, discussion, and use among women from four ethnic groups. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2006 Jan;15(1):162-6. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-04-0758.
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Non-interventional Study of Patients With Transthyretin (ATTR) Amyloidosis
Transthyretin Amyloidosis, ATTR-CM
Active, not recruiting
Mental And Speech Developmental Delay Autism Spectrum-Type Behavioral Disorder
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Central Auditory Processing Disorder
Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
Jennifer S Haas, MD, MSPH principal investigator
Brigham and Women's Hospital
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing Electronic Health Portals for collecting Family History data in people with Family Characteristics and Health Status, run by Brigham and Women's Hospital at 1 site in United States.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 5 inclusion and 3 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 20 Mar 2012. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Project will seek to demonstrate that family history data can be accurately reported by 5000 diverse patients using three portals, and that these data can be used to tailor an individual's health care based on their familial risk. (time frame: 2.5 years). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT00977847, which also lists 20 linked publications.
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 20 Mar 2012.