Patient navigators' reflections on the navigator-patient relationship

Journal of Cancer Education

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 337-344

  Phillips, Sara ^a,b   Nonzee, Narissa ^a   Tom, Laura ^a   Murphy, Kara ^c   Hajjar, Nadia ^c   Bularzik, Charito ^c   Dong, Xinqi ^d   Simon, Melissa A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Access DuPage   (United States)

^d RUSH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Patient navigation; Relational support; Uninsured

Indexed keywords

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT CARE; PROCEDURES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMMUNICATION; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT NAVIGATION; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84905581957     PISSN: 08858195     EISSN: 15430154     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13187-014-0612-3     Document Type: Article

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