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Patient Navigation to Improve Patient-Centered Cancer Care

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Mass General Brigham

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Cancer

Treatments

Other: Usual Care
Other: Patient Navigation Program

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

Details and patient eligibility

About

The MGH Cancer Center's patient navigation (PN) program, utilizes specially trained community-based personnel to improve cancer care in underserved communities by increasing cancer screening and removing barriers to timely care. This program incorporate rigorous evaluation to demonstrate the impact of innovation in healthcare delivery.

Full description

This program allow cancer patients from MGH Community Health Centers (CHC) and surrounding communities who experience barriers to accessing care, including poverty, and limited English proficiency, and provide them navigation to receive timely, guideline-concordant treatment at MGH Cancer Center. By offering these vulnerable individuals a patient-centered approach to treatment, The investigators aim to promote patient engagement and increase access throughout the continuum of cancer care.

Enrollment

400 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Adult patients (age 18 and older)

  • Newly diagnosed with cancer referred from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) community health centers in

    • Revere
    • Chelsea
    • Charlestown
    • surrounding communities referred to receive cancer treatment at the MGH Cancer Center

Exclusion criteria

-Patients that primary care providers exclude

Trial design

Primary purpose

Health Services Research

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

400 participants in 2 patient groups

Patient Navigation Program
Experimental group
Description:
* The study team will identify, track, and provide navigation for all adult patients referred to Cancer Center from the CHC and community partners for cancer treatment. * The Patient Navigation Program include * Education, * Appointment reminders, * Help with insurance, * Transportation, * Navigating the Cancer Center, * Assisting in finding appropriate child care, * Interpreting, * Connecting the patient to psychosocial and/or palliative care teams, * Physically escorting the patient to appointments
Treatment:
Other: Patient Navigation Program
Standard of Care
Active Comparator group
Description:
* The patients will receive enhanced usual care, * This consist of personal phone call reminders about upcoming appointments at the MGH Cancer Center
Treatment:
Other: Usual Care

Trial contacts and locations

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Central trial contact

Emma Whited

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