Effect of Apoyo con Cariño (Support With Caring) Trial of a Patient Navigator Intervention to Improve Palliative Care Outcomes for Latino Adults With Advanced Cancer: A Randomized Clinical Trial

• Published in: JAMA oncology Vol. 4; no. 12; p. 1736
• Main Authors: Fischer, Stacy M, Kline, Danielle M, Min, Sung-Joon, Okuyama-Sasaki, Sonia, Fink, Regina M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.12.2018
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Cancer Pain - ethnology; Cancer Pain - therapy; Colorado - epidemiology; Disease Progression; Female; Health Resources - statistics & numerical data; Hispanic Americans - statistics & numerical data; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Neoplasms - ethnology; Neoplasms - pathology; Neoplasms - therapy; Pain Management; Palliative Care - methods; Patient Acceptance of Health Care - ethnology; Patient Acceptance of Health Care - statistics & numerical data; Patient Navigation - methods; Patient Navigation - standards; Treatment Outcome; Colorado

Strategies to increase access to palliative care, particularly for racial/ethnic minorities, must maximize primary palliative care and community-based models to meet the ever-growing need in a culturally sensitive and congruent manner. To investigate if a culturally tailored patient navigator interv...