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Effect of a Lay Health Worker Intervention on Goals-of-Care Documentation and on Health Care Use, Costs, and Satisfaction Among Patients With CancerThe objective of this study was to determine whether a lay health worker program can increase documentation of patients' care preferences after cancer diagnosis.
National Library of Medicine
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
Fighting leukemia and racial inequality at the same timeIt’s hard for anyone to find a bone marrow donor, but Kevin Weston is facing even worse odds. It’s not because of the type of his cancer or even his insurance – it’s because he’s African-American.
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Healthcare Death Rate Higher in Minorities With Acute Leukemia, Study FindsBlacks and Hispanics have fewer cases of acute leukemia compared to whites but they die at a substantially higher rate, according to study results presented at the Fourth AACR Conference on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities, held in Washington, D.C. from Sept. 18-21, 2011.
Fierce Health
Lung Cancer Incidence and Mortality Review Shows No Ethnic Differences in WomenThere are no differences in lung cancer incidence or mortality among women of different ethnic groups when adjusted for age, smoking, and other factors, according to an article recently published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Targeted Oncology
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