Establishing effective patient navigation programs in oncology

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• Alternative Title:
  Support Care Cancer
• Personal Author:
  Lopez, Diego ; Pratt-Chapman, Mandi L. ; Rohan, Elizabeth A. ; Sheldon, Lisa Kennedy ; Basen-Engquist, Karen ; Kline, Ron ; Shulman, Lawrence N. ; Flores, Efren J.
• Description:
  Purpose
  
  Recent advances in cancer treatment have resulted in greatly improved survival, and yet many patients in the USA have not benefited due to poor access to healthcare and difficulty accessing timely care across the cancer care continuum. Recognizing these issues and the need to facilitate discussions on how to improve navigation services for patients with cancer, the National Cancer Policy Forum of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) held a workshop entitled, “Establishing Effective Patient Navigation Programs in Oncology.” The purpose of this manuscript is to disseminate the conclusions of this workshop while providing a clinically relevant review of patient navigation in oncology.
  
  Design
  
  Narrative literature review and summary of workshop discussions
  
  Results
  
  Patient navigation has been shown to be effective at improving outcomes throughout the spectrum of cancer care. Work remains to develop consensus on scope of practice and evaluation criteria and to align payment incentives and policy.
  
  Conclusion
  
  Patient navigation plays an essential role in overcoming patient- and system-level barriers to improve access to cancer care and outcomes for those most in need.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Article Cancer Care Barriers Humans Neoplasms Oncology Patient Navigation
• Source:
  Support Care Cancer. 27(6):1985-1996
• Pubmed ID:
  30887125
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC8811719
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  27
• Issue:
  6
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:a902d3eec9d08f74ce855e73e9d0c2f69f04ad5c20e251f3fae193bd1910dc16
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/114118/cdc_114118_DS1.pdf
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