Researchers have found a simple, low-cost way to get more adults to complete a fecal immunochemical test (FIT) to screen for colorectal cancer (CRC).
In a randomized controlled trial, patients who received an electronic “primer” message through their patient portal before the test kit arrived in their mailbox were more apt to complete and return the test than peers who didn’t get the electronic message.
“We were thrilled by the magnitude of the impact,” Gregory Goshgarian, MSc, MPH, and Daniel Croymans, MD, with the Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, said in a joint email to Medscape Medical News.