Patient Navigation to Improve Patient-Centered Cancer Care
| Status: | Recruiting |
|---|---|
| Conditions: | Cancer, Cancer |
| Therapuetic Areas: | Oncology |
| Healthy: | No |
| Age Range: | 18 - Any |
| Updated: | 4/4/2019 |
| Start Date: | November 1, 2017 |
| End Date: | October 2, 2023 |
| Contact: | Sarah Ivan |
| Email: | sivan@mgh.harvard.edu |
| Phone: | 6176435970 |
The MGH Cancer Center's patient navigation (PN) program, utilizes specially trained
community-based personnel to improve cancer care in underserved communities by increasing
cancer screening and removing barriers to timely care. This program incorporate rigorous
evaluation to demonstrate the impact of innovation in healthcare delivery.
community-based personnel to improve cancer care in underserved communities by increasing
cancer screening and removing barriers to timely care. This program incorporate rigorous
evaluation to demonstrate the impact of innovation in healthcare delivery.
This program allow cancer patients from MGH Community Health Centers (CHC) and surrounding
communities who experience barriers to accessing care, including poverty, and limited English
proficiency, and provide them navigation to receive timely, guideline-concordant treatment at
MGH Cancer Center. By offering these vulnerable individuals a patient-centered approach to
treatment, The investigators aim to promote patient engagement and increase access throughout
the continuum of cancer care.
communities who experience barriers to accessing care, including poverty, and limited English
proficiency, and provide them navigation to receive timely, guideline-concordant treatment at
MGH Cancer Center. By offering these vulnerable individuals a patient-centered approach to
treatment, The investigators aim to promote patient engagement and increase access throughout
the continuum of cancer care.
Inclusion Criteria:
- Adult patients (age 18 and older)
- Newly diagnosed with cancer referred from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)
community health centers in
- Revere
- Chelsea
- Charlestown
- surrounding communities referred to receive cancer treatment at the MGH Cancer
Center
Exclusion Criteria:
-Patients that primary care providers exclude
We found this trial at
1
site
185 Cambridge Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02114
Boston, Massachusetts 02114
617-724-5200
Principal Investigator: Sanja Percac-Lima, MD, PhD
Phone: 617-643-5970
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