Implementation of evidence-based patient navigation programs

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 123-127

  Freund, Karen M ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER SCREENING; CANCER THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; ETHNICITY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HOUSING; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; MENTAL CAPACITY; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; REVIEW; SKILL; SOCIAL SUPPORT; VULNERABLE POPULATION; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; NEOPLASMS;

EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; HUMANS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT NAVIGATION;

EID: 85013072423     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: 1651226X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0284186X.2016.1266078     Document Type: Review

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