Moving toward quality patient-centered care at cancer hospital
Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - 12:50
in Health & Medicine
Patient navigation and survivorship programs were the focus of a new survey, and the challenges many of these programs face. Results indicate that nearly half of respondents had both a navigation and survivorship program at their institution. Full-time navigators had an average patient load of 100-400 patients, in various phases of the cancer continuum of screening, diagnosis, treatment, and posttreatment.