ArticleCancer2011
Patient navigation for American Indians undergoing cancer treatment: utilization and impact on care delivery in a regional healthcare center.
Article in Cancer, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 56 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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56 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 78 citations in OpenAlex.
- Patient Navigation in Cancer Treatment: A Systematic Review.Current oncology reports · 2024Pooled it
- Systematic Review of Interventions Addressing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Cancer Care and Health Outcomes.Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2024Pooled it
- Interventions to increase racial and ethnic minority accrual into cancer clinical trials: A systematic review.Cancer · 2022Pooled it
- Interventions to improve cancer survivorship among Indigenous Peoples and communities: a systematic review with a narrative synthesis.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2021Pooled it
- The role of lay health workers in pediatric chronic disease: a systematic review.Academic pediatricsPooled it
- A Pilot Study to Determine the Effect of an Educational DVD in Philippine Languages on Cancer Clinical Trial Participation among Filipinos in Hawai'i.Hawai'i journal of medicine & public health : a journal of Asia Pacific Medicine & Public Health · 2017Trial
- Helping cancer patients across the care continuum: the navigation program at the Queen's Medical Center.Hawai'i journal of medicine & public health : a journal of Asia Pacific Medicine & Public Health · 2013Trial
- Patient navigation in neuro-oncology: A scoping review of programs supporting patients with CNS tumors.Equity neuroscience · 2026Article
- Breast cancer mortality by age and race and/or ethnicity across counties in the United States, 2000-2019.Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 2026Article
- Connecting Patients with Clinical Trials Using Patient Navigation: A Scoping Review.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2026Article
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- Implementing a national clinical trial navigator program: a qualitative CFIR analysis of barriers and facilitators from the perspective of people with lived cancer experience.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026Article
- Perspectives on GUIDE (Guiding participation toward understanding, inclusion, diversity, and equity for cancer trials): a clinical trial access intervention.Cancer causes & control : CCC · 2026Article
- Pilot implementation and qualitative evaluation of a financial hardship screening among Native American patients with cancer.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2024Article
- Providers' and survivors' perspectives on the availability and accessibility of surgery in gastrointestinal cancer care.Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract · 2024Article
- Simulating the population impact of interventions to reduce racial gaps in breast cancer treatment.Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 2024Article
- Tribal Perspectives on Patient Navigation for Rural Native Veterans Using Veteran Health Administration Services.Journal of community health · 2024Article
- Addressing disparities in cancer clinical trials: a roadmap to more equitable accrual.Frontiers in health services · 2024Article
- The use of patient navigation to transition detoxification patients to substance use treatment in the Alaska Interior.Public health in practice (Oxford, England) · 2023Article
- Patient Navigation for Timely, Guideline-Adherent Adjuvant Therapy for Head and Neck Cancer: A National Landscape Analysis.Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundA study was undertaken to assess patient navigation utilization and its impact on treatment interruptions and clinical trial enrollment among American Indian cancer patients.
methodsBetween February 2004 and September 2009, 332 American Indian cancer patients received patient navigation services throughout cancer treatment. The patient navigation program provided culturally competent navigators to assist patients with navigating cancer therapy, obtaining medications, insurance issues, communicating with medical providers, and travel and lodging logistics. Data on utilization and trial enrollment were prospectively collected. Data for a historical control group of 70 American Indian patients who did not receive patient navigation services were used to compare treatment interruptions among those undergoing patient navigation during curative radiation therapy (subgroup of 123 patients).
resultsThe median number of contacts with a navigator was 12 (range, 1-119). The median time spent with the navigator at first contact was 40 minutes (range, 10-250 minutes), and it was 15 minutes for subsequent contacts. Patients treated with radiation therapy with curative intent who underwent patient navigation had fewer days of treatment interruption (mean, 1.7 days; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.1-2.2 days) than historical controls who did not receive patient navigation services (mean, 4.9 days; 95% CI, 2.9-6.9 days). Of the 332 patients, 72 (22%; 95% CI, 17%-26%) were enrolled on a clinical treatment trial or cancer control protocol.
conclusionsPatient navigation was associated with fewer treatment interruptions and relatively high rates of clinical trial enrollment among American Indian cancer patients compared with national reports.
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