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Lay Health Worker Engage, Educate, and Encourage Patients to Share (LEAPS)This randomized pilot clinical trial studies health care coach support in reducing acute care use and cost in patients with cancer. Health care coach support may help cancer patients to make decisions about their care that matches what is important to them with symptom management.
U.S. 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
Improving Supportive Care For Patients With Thoracic MalignanciesThe purpose of this study is to use a proactive approach to improve symptom management of patients with thoracic malignancies and ensure receipt of evidence-based cancer care delivery.
U.S. National Library of Medicine
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
In New ASCO Policy Brief, Manali Patel Tackles Cancer Disparities and Health Equity“I spent over half a decade working with ASCO on different initiatives to try to infuse a health equity lens,” says Patel. “This policy statement arose from our realization that we needed to readdress ASCO’s 2009 recommendations given persistent disparities, despite progress in cancer over the previous ten years. The world has changed since we began crafting this policy statement."
Stanford Department of Medicine
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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Cancer Disparities and Health Equity: A Policy Statement From the American Society of Clinical OncologyThe rich text element allows you to create and format headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, images, and video all in one place instead of having to add and format them individually. Just double-click and easily create content.
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