Impact of patient and navigator race and language concordance on care after cancer screening abnormalities

Cancer

Volumn 121, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1477-1483

  Charlot, Marjory ^a   Santana, M Christina ^e   Chen, Clara A ^c   Bak, Sharon ^a   Heeren, Timothy C ^c   Battaglia, Tracy A ^a   Egan, A Patrick ^d   Kalish, Richard ^e   Freund, Karen M ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer screening; disparities; language; patient navigator; race

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE CONCORDANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RACE; RACE CONCORDANCE; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; ADOLESCENT; BLACK PERSON; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HISPANIC; LANGUAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT NAVIGATION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84928280415     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.29221     Document Type: Article

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