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Improving Show Rates in Dental Care Settings Serving Underserved Populations

United States48 participantsStarted 2025-04-04

Plain-language summary

The goal of this study is to compare different no-show interventions in dental clinics serving underserved populations. The main question it seeks to answer is * How do different no-show intervention methods compare in reducing no-shows? Participants will be asked to * Implement different interventions * Report a limited set of data to researchers

Who can participate

Age range18 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: Sites must be: * Serve at least a 51 percent self-pay and Medicaid patients * Be willing to provide limited data sets of clinic data to the research team * Be willing to undertake and support and organizational improvement project to improve show rates Staff must be: * A paid staff member at a participating clinic * Be able and willing to provide written or verbal consent Exclusion Criteria: * No exclusion criteria for clinics or staff

What they're measuring

Change in proportion of scheduled appointments for which the patient attends, pre-to-post intervention

Timeframe: 6 months pre-intervention to 12 months post-intervention

Trial details

NCT IDNCT06581250

SponsorUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2029-01-31

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