Navigating Language Barriers: A Systematic Review of Patient Navigators' Impact on Cancer Screening for Limited English Proficient Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To systematically review the literature on the impact of patient navigators on cancer screening for limited English proficient (LEP) patients.

Data sources

Electronic databases (PubMed, PsycINFO via OVID, Web of Science, Cochrane, EMBASE, and Scopus) through 8 May 2015.

Eligibility criteria

Articles in this review had: (1) a study population of LEP patients eligible for breast, cervical or colorectal cancer screenings, (2) a patient navigator intervention to provide services prior to or during cancer screening, (3) a comparison of the patient navigator intervention to either a control group or another intervention, and (4) language-specific outcomes related to the patient navigator intervention.

Study appraisal

We assessed the quality of the articles

SUBMITTER: Genoff MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4803699 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature