Patient Navigation: The Promise to Reduce Health Disparities

Even as patient navigation is studied to ensure appropriate care to the under-served, its major implementation has been in insured populations who already have better health outcomes. Health care reform has at its goal a transition into a care management approach, as a necessary step to improving qu...

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Published in:	Journal of general internal medicine : JGIM 2011-02, Vol.26 (2), p.110-112
Main Author:	Freund, Karen M.
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Breast Neoplasms - diagnosis Breast Neoplasms - diagnostic imaging Breast Neoplasms - ethnology Continuity of Patient Care - standards Editorials Female Health care delivery Humans Internal Medicine Mammography - psychology Mammography - standards Medicine Medicine & Public Health Patient Care - psychology Patient care planning Patient Satisfaction - ethnology Urban Population Women - psychology
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Summary:	Even as patient navigation is studied to ensure appropriate care to the under-served, its major implementation has been in insured populations who already have better health outcomes. Health care reform has at its goal a transition into a care management approach, as a necessary step to improving quality and reducing cost.
ISSN:	0884-8734 1525-1497