A Mobile Patient Health Technology Intervention for Improving Lung Cancer Screening Rates in Eligible High Risk Patients
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.
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This describes the study’s primary purpose.
Plus 2 other study approaches.
These are broad labels—not an eligibility decision.
Checked against the public recordLast updated Mar 25, 2026 · Source: ClinicalTrials.gov
The study is currently accepting participants.
Interventional
Locations may change over time.
Study sponsor
What this study is about
- Purpose
- Screening
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Sponsor
- Wake Forest University Health Sciences
- Interventions being studied
- Other: Portal Message with Reminder Text Messages; Other: Text Message with Reminder Text Messages; Other: Portal message only; Other: Usual Care
How this study is categorized
These labels come from structured fields and exact terms in the public record.
Who may be able to participate
The sponsor separates these requirements into two groups. You do not need to interpret them alone—use them to guide a conversation with the study team.
- 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
- 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
Important: This is the sponsor’s public criteria, not a determination of eligibility. The study team must review your individual situation.
U.S. locations
- Atrium Health Wake Forest BaptistWinston-Salem, North Carolina
Source and freshness
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