Patient navigation: The promise to reduce health disparities

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 110-112

  Freund, Karen M ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET; COST CONTROL; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EDITORIAL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNICITY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MEDICAID; MINORITY HEALTH; RACE DIFFERENCE; REIMBURSEMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCREENING; SOCIAL ASPECT;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; URBAN POPULATION; WOMEN;

EID: 78751580532     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-010-1593-5     Document Type: Editorial

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