Using FastTrack to implement an academic medical center and community health center collaborative for cancer care delivery

Healthcare

Volumn 1, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 130-135

  Waldman, Laura Tesler ^a   Bean, William ^b   Levine, Anne L ^a   Cohen Bearak, Adena ^c   Phelps, Fawn A ^b   Svoboda, Ludmila ^a   Freedman, Rachel A ^a   Elfiky, Aymen A ^a   Berlin, Suzanne ^a   Abel, Gregory A ^a   Deutsch, Charles ^c   Lathan, Christopher S ^a  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer care delivery; Community partnerships; Disparities; Implementation research; Intervention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

EID: 84890239878     PISSN: 22130764     EISSN: 22130772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hjdsi.2013.09.002     Document Type: Article

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