Clinical trial · Interventional
The Effect of Peer Comparison Emails on Oncologists' Documentation of Cancer Stage
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
Documenting cancer stage is the most important determinant of treatment approach and survival for cancer patients. However, oncologists do not routinely document a patient's cancer stage in the structured field in electronic health records. This quality improvement pilot study evaluated the impact of sending an email to physicians at a cancer center of a large academic hospital with individualized data on their rates of cancer stage documentation using a structured field. The investigators assessed patient-level documentation and physician-level rates of staging documentation over 15 months including a three-month pre-period, a six-month pilot phase and a six-month follow-up period. The investigators also estimated staging documentation rates separately for each physician's new versus established patients.
Conditions
Conditions (1)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oncology | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
Interventions (2)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| No peer comparison email | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
| Peer comparison email | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- PLACEBO_COMPARATOR
- label
- Comparison Group
- description
- Physicians in the control group did not receive peer comparison emails.
- interventionNames
- Other: No peer comparison email
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Intervention Group
- description
- Physicians in the intervention group received peer comparison emails.
- interventionNames
- Other: Peer comparison email
Primary outcomes (1)
- measure
- Measuring if a patient's cancer stage was documented in a structured field in the Electronic Health Record on the date of the patient's first ambulatory care visit
- timeFrame
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * Attending physicians who had been at one of three sites of hospital between January - August 2018 Exclusion Criteria: * Physicians treating cancer patients where American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) staging modules were less clinically relevant * Physicians with low clinical volume (\<5 patients over 3 months) * Physicians without any outpatient visits
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