Patient navigators for people with chronic disease: Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis

Systematic Reviews

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Kelly, Elizabeth ^a   Ivers, Noah ^b   Zawi, Rami ^b   Barnieh, Lianne ^a   Manns, Braden ^a,c   Lorenzetti, Diane L ^c   Nicholas, David ^c   Tonelli, Marcello ^a   Hemmelgarn, Brenda ^a,c   Lewanczuk, Richard ^d,e   Edwards, Alun ^a,e   Braun, Ted ^e   McBrien, Kerry A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b WOMEN S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^e ALBERTA HEALTH SERVICES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chronic disease; Patient navigator; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; META ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; HEALTH STATUS; METHODOLOGY;

CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; PATIENT NAVIGATION; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84939181080     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20464053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13643-015-0019-1     Document Type: Article

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