Reducing Missed Appointments

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phasePhase 3
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age1-24
SponsorHugo W. Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger, Inc.

About this trial

There are four goals of this project: (1) To examine the impact of different appointment reminder messages on appointment attendance; (2) to determine the added benefit of a patient navigator reaching out in advance of appointments to families at elevated risk of missing their appointment, and determine the most common barriers families face in appointment attendance; (3) to evaluate which patients are at highest risk of missing their appointment, and to determine the effectiveness of the intervention trial across different patient risk levels; and (4) to examine if the missing appointment interventions increase the socioeconomic diversity patients.

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

All patients who are scheduled to be seen within the center for autism or the center for neuropsychological and psychological assessment for evaluation appointments will be automatically enrolled in the reminder message portion of the intervention trial.

Patients who are at elevated risk within the center for neuropsychological and psychological assessment are automatically enrolled in the patient navigator portion of the intervention trial.

Disqualifiers

None for the messaging portion of the study

For patient navigation, patients >18 years of age will be excluded.

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Reminder message and patient navigation

Treatment groups

5,000 Participants
are divided into 6 treatment groups

6

Treatment groups

See each treatment group below.