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Fast Track to Fertility

Description

The Fast Track to Fertility (FTF) program is an algorithmic text messaging communication and patient education platform designed to improve the efficiency the fertility workup. The initial pilot program resulted in an approximately 50% reduction in the time taken to complete the diagnostic workup. Since the pilot program, the investigators have enhanced the FTF Program (v2.0) beyond the texting platform, incorporating educational videos to increase patient knowledge and autonomy in the workup and treatment of infertility. This protocol pertains to a randomized controlled quality improvement initiative to measure the impact of the FTF v2.0 Program on fertility workup completion, efficiency, and patient outcomes.

Conditions

Infertility
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Study Details

Study overview

The Fast Track to Fertility (FTF) program is an algorithmic text messaging communication and patient education platform designed to improve the efficiency the fertility workup. The initial pilot program resulted in an approximately 50% reduction in the time taken to complete the diagnostic workup. Since the pilot program, the investigators have enhanced the FTF Program (v2.0) beyond the texting platform, incorporating educational videos to increase patient knowledge and autonomy in the workup and treatment of infertility. This protocol pertains to a randomized controlled quality improvement initiative to measure the impact of the FTF v2.0 Program on fertility workup completion, efficiency, and patient outcomes.

Fast Track to Fertility: Randomized Controlled Quality Improvement Initiative of an Algorithmic Text Messaging Communication and Patient Education Platform Designed to Improve the Efficiency the Fertility Workup

Fast Track to Fertility

Condition
Infertility
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Philadelphia

Penn Fertility Care, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Female new patients seen at Penn Fertility Care for the workup of infertility
  • * Patients who have yet to complete at least 3 components of the fertility workup, including:
  • 1. Laboratory blood tests
  • 2. Tubal patency testing / uterine cavity assessment (hysterosalpingogram (HSG) or sonohysterogram (Femvue))
  • 3. Pelvic ultrasound
  • 4. Semen analysis
  • 5. Genetic carrier screening.
  • * Patients must be willing to be randomized to FTF versus standard of care
  • * Pregnancy
  • * Age \<18 years
  • * Patients with no access to texting or unable to engage via a text messaging service
  • * Patients requiring fewer than three components of the infertility work-up
  • * Patients presenting for second opinion with work-up completed
  • * Patients seeking IVF for oocyte cryopreservation, PGT-M, or embryo banking
  • * Non-English speaking

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

University of Pennsylvania,

Anuja Dokras, MD, MHCI, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, University of Pennsylvania

Study Record Dates

2027-04-25