A patient navigation intervention for drug-involved former prison inmates

Substance Abuse

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 34-41

  Binswanger, Ingrid A ^a,b   Whitley, Elizabeth ^b,c   Haffey, Paul Ryan ^b   Mueller, Shane R ^a   Min, Sung Joon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DENVER HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Denver Health Medical Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Health care utilization; patient navigation; prisoners; randomized controlled trials; substance abuse; vulnerable populations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COLORADO; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT LIVING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE; PRISONER; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; UTILIZATION; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ADULT; COLORADO; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INDEPENDENT LIVING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT NAVIGATION; PRISONERS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; UNCOMPENSATED CARE; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 84925856170     PISSN: 08897077     EISSN: 15470164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08897077.2014.932320     Document Type: Article

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