Nurse navigators in early cancer care: a randomized, controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To determine whether a nurse navigator intervention improves quality of life and patient experience with care for people recently given a diagnosis of breast, colorectal, or lung cancer.

Patients and methods

Adults with recently diagnosed primary breast, colorectal, or lung cancer (n = 251) received either enhanced usual care (n = 118) or nurse navigator support for 4 months (n = 133) in a two-group cluster randomized, controlled trial with primary care physicians as the units of randomization. Patient-reported measures included the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General (FACT-G) Quality of Life scale, three subscales of the Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care (PACIC), and selected subscales from a cancer adaptation of the Picker Institute's patient e

SUBMITTER: Wagner EH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3867643 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature