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View article: Using Stakeholder Engagement to Build Cancer Survivorship Care Coordination Capacity Between Primary and Oncology Care
Using Stakeholder Engagement to Build Cancer Survivorship Care Coordination Capacity Between Primary and Oncology Care Open
Introduction: Cancer survivors experience gaps in access to timely and well-coordinated care. We describe stakeholder engagement activities across a university-based comprehensive cancer center and a primary care-focused federally qualifie…
View article: Achieving Health Equity: Closing The Gaps In Health Care Disparities, Interventions, And Research
Achieving Health Equity: Closing The Gaps In Health Care Disparities, Interventions, And Research Open
In the United States, racial/ethnic minority, rural, and low-income populations continue to experience suboptimal access to and quality of health care despite decades of recognition of health disparities and policy mandates to eliminate th…
View article: Evaluating implementation of a community-focused patient navigation intervention at an NCI-designated cancer center using RE-AIM
Evaluating implementation of a community-focused patient navigation intervention at an NCI-designated cancer center using RE-AIM Open
Background Patient navigation is an evidence-based intervention that reduces cancer health disparities by directly addressing the barriers to care for underserved patients with cancer. Variability in design and integration of patient navig…
View article: TABLE 1 from Evaluating Work Impairment as a Source of Financial Toxicity in Cancer Healthcare and Negative Impacts on Health Status
TABLE 1 from Evaluating Work Impairment as a Source of Financial Toxicity in Cancer Healthcare and Negative Impacts on Health Status Open
Participant characteristics
View article: TABLE 1 from Evaluating Work Impairment as a Source of Financial Toxicity in Cancer Healthcare and Negative Impacts on Health Status
TABLE 1 from Evaluating Work Impairment as a Source of Financial Toxicity in Cancer Healthcare and Negative Impacts on Health Status Open
Participant characteristics
View article: TABLE 2 from Evaluating Work Impairment as a Source of Financial Toxicity in Cancer Healthcare and Negative Impacts on Health Status
TABLE 2 from Evaluating Work Impairment as a Source of Financial Toxicity in Cancer Healthcare and Negative Impacts on Health Status Open
The best-fit model – evaluating the financial factors across four cancer type patients (breast, lung, prostate, and colon)
View article: TABLE 3 from Evaluating Work Impairment as a Source of Financial Toxicity in Cancer Healthcare and Negative Impacts on Health Status
TABLE 3 from Evaluating Work Impairment as a Source of Financial Toxicity in Cancer Healthcare and Negative Impacts on Health Status Open
Logistic regression of full model of main effects
View article: TABLE 2 from Evaluating Work Impairment as a Source of Financial Toxicity in Cancer Healthcare and Negative Impacts on Health Status
TABLE 2 from Evaluating Work Impairment as a Source of Financial Toxicity in Cancer Healthcare and Negative Impacts on Health Status Open
The best-fit model – evaluating the financial factors across four cancer type patients (breast, lung, prostate, and colon)
View article: Data from Evaluating Work Impairment as a Source of Financial Toxicity in Cancer Healthcare and Negative Impacts on Health Status
Data from Evaluating Work Impairment as a Source of Financial Toxicity in Cancer Healthcare and Negative Impacts on Health Status Open
How the socioeconomic factors intersect for a particular patient can determine their susceptibility to financial toxicity, what costs they will encounter during treatment, the type and quality of their care, and the potential work impairme…
View article: Data from Evaluating Work Impairment as a Source of Financial Toxicity in Cancer Healthcare and Negative Impacts on Health Status
Data from Evaluating Work Impairment as a Source of Financial Toxicity in Cancer Healthcare and Negative Impacts on Health Status Open
How the socioeconomic factors intersect for a particular patient can determine their susceptibility to financial toxicity, what costs they will encounter during treatment, the type and quality of their care, and the potential work impairme…
View article: TABLE 3 from Evaluating Work Impairment as a Source of Financial Toxicity in Cancer Healthcare and Negative Impacts on Health Status
TABLE 3 from Evaluating Work Impairment as a Source of Financial Toxicity in Cancer Healthcare and Negative Impacts on Health Status Open
Logistic regression of full model of main effects
View article: Head computerized tomography in emergency department evaluation of the geriatric patient with generalized weakness
Head computerized tomography in emergency department evaluation of the geriatric patient with generalized weakness Open
Few patients with generalized weakness evaluated with head CT had acutely abnormal intracranial findings. Patients with objective weakness or neurologic deficits were more likely to have acute abnormalities. Although head CT is frequently …
View article: Isn’t there enough evidence on the benefits of patient navigation?
Isn’t there enough evidence on the benefits of patient navigation? Open
In this issue of CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, Chan and colleagues1 describe an umbrella review of 61 systematic reviews published between 2012 and 2022, along with a review of 53 primary studies published globally since 2021. Patie…
View article: Career disruption and limitation of financial earnings due to cancer
Career disruption and limitation of financial earnings due to cancer Open
Purpose This study investigated how cancer diagnosis and treatment lead to career disruption and, consequently, loss of income and depletion of savings. Design This study followed a qualitative descriptive design that allowed us to underst…
View article: Evaluating Work Impairment as a Source of Financial Toxicity in Cancer Healthcare and Negative Impacts on Health Status
Evaluating Work Impairment as a Source of Financial Toxicity in Cancer Healthcare and Negative Impacts on Health Status Open
How the socioeconomic factors intersect for a particular patient can determine their susceptibility to financial toxicity, what costs they will encounter during treatment, the type and quality of their care, and the potential work impairme…
View article: Development of a Definition of Postacute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection
Development of a Definition of Postacute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Open
Importance SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with persistent, relapsing, or new symptoms or other health effects occurring after acute infection, termed postacute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC), also known as long COVID . Charact…
View article: Peer Review Report For: Protocol: How can people with social care needs be supported through processes of digital care navigation to access remote primary care? A multi-site case study in UK general practice of remote care as the ‘new normal’. [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]
Peer Review Report For: Protocol: How can people with social care needs be supported through processes of digital care navigation to access remote primary care? A multi-site case study in UK general practice of remote care as the ‘new normal’. [version 1; peer review: 2 approved] Open
Background: Care navigation refers to support for patients accessing primary care and other related services. The expansion of digitally enabled care in the UK since the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to a greater nee…
View article: A novel approach for assessing bias during team-based clinical decision-making
A novel approach for assessing bias during team-based clinical decision-making Open
Many clinical processes include multidisciplinary group decision-making, yet few methods exist to evaluate the presence of implicit bias during this collective process. Implicit bias negatively impacts the equitable delivery of evidence-ba…
View article: The Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic Policy on Social Needs Across the State of Kansas and Western Missouri: Paired Survey Response Testing
The Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic Policy on Social Needs Across the State of Kansas and Western Missouri: Paired Survey Response Testing Open
Background Studying patients’ social needs is critical to the understanding of health conditions and disparities, and to inform strategies for improving health outcomes. Studies have shown that people of color, low-income families, and tho…
View article: Group Dynamics and Allocation of Advanced Heart Failure Therapies—Heart Transplants and Ventricular Assist Devices—By Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Group
Group Dynamics and Allocation of Advanced Heart Failure Therapies—Heart Transplants and Ventricular Assist Devices—By Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Group Open
Background US regulatory framework for advanced heart failure therapies (AHFT), ventricular assist devices, and heart transplants, delegate eligibility decisions to multidisciplinary groups at the center level. The subjective nature of dec…
View article: Policy Recommendations for Improving Rural Cancer Services in the United States
Policy Recommendations for Improving Rural Cancer Services in the United States Open
Compared with urban residents, rural Americans have seen slower declines in cancer deaths, have lower incidence but higher death rates from cancers that can be prevented through screening, have lower screening rates, are more likely to pre…
View article: Patient Navigation for Cancer Screening and Treatment
Patient Navigation for Cancer Screening and Treatment Open
Differences in key social determinants of health between racial and ethnic, socioeconomic, or geographic groups result in differential barriers to care, subsequent access to and utilization of timely, high-quality cancer care, and cancer o…
View article: Race and Gender-Based Perceptions of Older Septuagenarian Adults
Race and Gender-Based Perceptions of Older Septuagenarian Adults Open
Participants had few biases toward older Black and White models, while gender biases favored men.
View article: Association Between the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion and Receipt of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy by Race and Ethnicity
Association Between the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion and Receipt of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy by Race and Ethnicity Open
Background Black and Hispanic patients are less likely to receive cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) than White patients. Medicaid expansion has been associated with increased access to cardiovascular care among racial and ethnic grou…
View article: Financial burden among cancer patients: A national‐level perspective
Financial burden among cancer patients: A national‐level perspective Open
Background This research study aimed to evaluate the financial burden among older cancer patients and its corresponding risk factors. Factors such as increasing treatment costs and work limitations often lead cancer patients to bankruptcy …
View article: Comparing clinical and nonclinical cancer patient navigators: A national study in the United States
Comparing clinical and nonclinical cancer patient navigators: A national study in the United States Open
BACKGROUND A nationwide survey was conducted to examine differences between clinical and nonclinical oncology navigators in their service provision, engagement in the cancer care continuum, personal characteristics, and program characteris…