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Establishing Effective Patient Navigation Programs in Oncology: Proceedings of a Workshop

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Non-Systematic Review

Source: National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine

Last Reviewed: 2018

Workgroups: Cancer Workgroup

This report details the proceedings of a 2017 workshop that addressed how to improve patient navigation services for people with cancer. Patient navigation services are community-based service delivery interventions that promote access to timely diagnosis and treatment of cancer and other chronic diseases by eliminating barriers to care. The workshop involved a broad range of experts and contributors who identified: 

  • Which patients need navigation services
  • Who should serve as patient navigators
  • The benefits of patient navigation services and current gaps in its evidence base
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Objectives related to this resource (10)

Reduce the overall cancer death rate — C‑01
Improving
Reduce the lung cancer death rate — C‑02
Improving
Reduce the female breast cancer death rate — C‑04
Improving
Reduce the colorectal cancer death rate — C‑06
Little or no detectable change
Reduce the prostate cancer death rate — C‑08
Little or no detectable change
Increase the proportion of adults who get screened for lung cancer — C‑03
Baseline only
Increase the proportion of females who get screened for breast cancer — C‑05
Little or no detectable change
Increase the proportion of adults who get screened for colorectal cancer — C‑07
LHI label
Baseline only
Increase the proportion of females who get screened for cervical cancer — C‑09
Little or no detectable change
Increase the proportion of cancer survivors who are living 5 years or longer after diagnosis — C‑11
Baseline only

Suggested Citation

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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. (2018). Establishing Effective Patient Navigation Programs in Oncology: Proceedings of a Workshop. Retrieved from https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25073/establishing-effective-patient-navigation-programs-in-oncology-proceedings-of-a.