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...l Cancer Institute, describe how the first patient navigator program at Harlem Hospital, New York, helped under...inister a US$25 million program to provide patient navigator services with the goal of reducing barriers and improving health-care outcomes. Patient navigators ...Pfizer unites cancer care leaders to introduce novel tool to improve cancer outcomes
...y underserved, discuss the significance of patient navigator programs, and introduce the new multimedia tool kit. WHO: Keynote Speakers: Dr. Harold Freeman, President and Founder of the Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention and former President of the American Cancer Society Daniel Sisto, Presid...Patient navigation provide tools to address barriers to care but need standardization and assessment
Patient navigator programs seek to help cancer patients and provider...avigation programs, the authors conclude that "the navigator role must be defined more fully, and appropriate metrics developed to measure the services provided ...NCI's Patient Navigator Research Program: Questions and answers
...ter identifying an abnormal finding. The patient navigator will assist patients and their families through th...rities is already conducting several pilot patient navigator projects ( http://crchd.nci.nih.gov/pdf/equal_access_volume1_issue4.pdf ). The purpose of the PNRP ...