Mobile messages to help high-risk people get screened for lung cancer
Tests portal and text message reminders to encourage lung cancer screening in high-risk patients.
Plain-language title generated from the registry record
Registry title: A Mobile Patient Health Technology Intervention for Improving Lung Cancer Screening Rates in Eligible High Risk Patients
Key facts
- Where
- Winston-Salem, United StatesSee the site
Could this be for you?
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 50 and 77 years old?
Source: NCT07322367, who can take part
Where in United States
- Atrium Health Wake Forest BaptistWinston-Salem, United StatesTaking people
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Trial details
- Who runs it
- Wake Forest University Health Sciences
- Trial code
- NCT07322367
- Record updated
- 10 November 2026
- Original description
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.Read full original descriptionShow less
A Pragmatic Randomized-Controlled Learning Health System Trial
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.
Inclusion: 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: 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; 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).