What are patient navigators doing, for whom, and where? A national survey evaluating the types of services provided by patient navigators

Patient navigators becoming the norm in Canada.

Directions are readily available to navigate city roads but what about the road to cancer recovery? Where’s the map to direct patients through the twists, turns and unmarked pathways of the health care system? Increasingly, the North American solution isn’t a map but rather a personal guide known as a patient navigator. But unlike the United States, where patient navigation is a somewhat helter...

Patient navigators for people with chronic disease: A systematic review

BACKGROUND People with chronic diseases experience barriers to managing their diseases and accessing available health services. Patient navigator programs are increasingly being used to help people with chronic diseases navigate and access health services. OBJECTIVE The objective of this review was to summarize the evidence for patient navigator programs in people with a broad range of chroni...

Patient navigators facilitating access to primary care: a scoping review

OBJECTIVE Patient navigators are a promising mechanism to link patients with primary care. While navigators have been used in population health promotion and prevention programmes, their impact on access to primary care is not clear. The aim of this scoping review was to examine the use of patient navigators to facilitate access to primary care and how they were defined and described, their com...

Patient Navigators: Agents of Creating Community-Nested Patient-Centered Medical Homes for Cancer Care

Patient navigation is an internationally utilized, culturally grounded, and multifaceted strategy to optimize patients' interface with the health-care team and system. The DuPage County Patient Navigation Collaborative (DPNC) is a campus-community partnership designed to improve access to care among uninsured breast and cervical cancer patients in DuPage County, IL. Importantly, the DPNC connec...

Patient Satisfaction With the Quality of Health Services Provided by Public Hospitals in Rasht, Iran