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Lay Health Worker-Led Cancer Symptom Screening Intervention and the Effect on Patient-Reported Satisfaction, Health Status, Health Care Use, and Total Costs: Results From a Tri-Part CollaborationWe developed and evaluated the effect of a lay health worker (LHW)-led symptom screening intervention on satisfaction, self-reported overall and mental health, health care use, total costs, and survival.
Journal of Clinical Oncology
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Lay Health Worker Led Symptom Assessment InterventionUndertreated patient symptoms and resulting acute care use require approaches that improve symptom-burden. Previously a lay health worker (LHW)-led symptom screening intervention was developed for patients with cancer. In pilot work, the intervention was associated with improvements in patient symptom burden and reductions in healthcare use and costs of care at the end of life.
U.S. National Library of Medicine
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How Do Social Factors Explain Outcomes in Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer Among Hispanics in California? Explaining the Hispanic ParadoxForeign-born Hispanics with NSCLC have a decreased risk of disease-specific mortality compared with NHWs and US-born Hispanics with NSCLC. Neighborhood factors slightly moderate this survival advantage.
Journal of Clinical Oncology
The Power of Patient Advocacy: 10-Year Study Reveals Increased Survival Rates With Enhanced Advance Care PlanningA 10-year follow-up study of a 6-month advance care planning intervention showed significant improvement in patients’ experiences and hospice utilization, with a reduction in end-of-life acute care use. Investigators also observed a sustainable long-term impact on emergency department use and hospitalizations, as well as a significant improvement in overall survival.
The ASCO Post
The Impact of Big Data on Medical DecisionsEnd-of-life decisions are inherently difficult for all concerned. Fortunately for healthcare providers, and in turn the patients they serve, increasingly robust options offer support for data-driven decisions.
Managed Healthcare Executive
Disparities in Acute Leukemia Care Are MultifactorialThe purpose of this study is to determine how socioeconomic status factors influence mortality from Acute Leukemia using a population-based novel linked dataset of the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results Database and the National Longitudinal Mortality Study.
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