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UCLA Health Patient Health Tickler Email
Sponsor: University of California, Los Angeles
Summary
This is a prospective clinical trial evaluating how a behaviorally-informed outreach email notification impacts patient engagement with primary care. This trial is being implemented in conjunction with UCLA Health's larger quality improvement initiative (the My Action Plan Quality Improvement Initiative) in order to improve primary care preventive measure completion rates. The main question it aims to answer is if sending an enhanced email notification (i.e., enhanced tickler email) to identified UCLA Health primary care patients increases their engagement with primary care. Participants will be assigned to either a control (standard tickler email) or treatment (enhanced tickler email) condition, based on whether their birth date ends in an odd or even number. Researchers will compare control and treatment groups to see if and how they differ in pre-defined outcome measures.
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
81000
Start Date
2023-11-08
Completion Date
2025-11-30
Last Updated
2025-07-02
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Behaviorally informed tickler email
The email notification from patients' PCP office will inform patients that a new review of their records shows they are due for an important medical exam. This intervention harnesses behavioral principles related to importance (medical exam described as important), personalization (records described as belonging to participants), urgency (participants are asked to sign in and make the recommended appointment as soon as possible), timeliness (participants are told that there has been a new review of their records), source effects and accountability (participants are told that a message from their PCP's office is waiting for their response). To make it easier for patients to find and review the MAP letter, the email also contains a link that directs patients to the MAP letter on their patient portal.
Locations (1)
UCLA Health Department of Medicine, Quality Office
Los Angeles, California, United States