Patterns of task and network actions performed by navigators to facilitate cancer care

Health Care Management Review

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 90-101

  Clark, Jack A ^a,b   Parker, Victoria A ^c   Battaglia, Tracy A ^c   Freund, Karen M ^d  

^a Center for Health Quality Outcomes and Economic Research Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

access to care; cancer; mixed methods; patient navigation

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NEOPLASMS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PROCEDURES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

COMMUNICATION; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT NAVIGATION; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 84896398750     PISSN: 03616274     EISSN: 15505030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HMR.0b013e31828da41e     Document Type: Article

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