Effect of Patient Navigation on Breast Cancer Screening Among African American Medicare Beneficiaries: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 68-76

  Marshall, Jessie Kimbrough ^a   Mbah, Olive M ^b   Ford, Jean G ^c   Phelan Emrick, Darcy ^d   Ahmed, Saifuddin ^d   Bone, Lee ^d   Wenzel, Jennifer ^b,e   Shapiro, Gary R ^f   Howerton, Mollie ^g   Johnson, Lawrence ^h   Brown, Qiana ⁱ   Ewing, Altovise ^d   Pollack, Craig Evan ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BROOKLYN HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^f Health Partners Institute for Education and Research   (United States)

^g CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES   (United States)

^h Park West Health Systems   (United States)

ⁱ TVCOFA Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; mammography; patient navigation

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICARE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; URBAN POPULATION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL TRIAL; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PROCEDURES; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICARE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT NAVIGATION; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84953347196     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-015-3484-2     Document Type: Article

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