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Cancer patient navigation has emerged as a patient-centric intervention enabling equitable cancer care, by mitigating barriers patients encounter throughout their cancer journey. Cancer Care Alberta (CCA) implemented a professional navigation model o...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the awareness of patient navigation (PN) in the general population in Germany and to assess which navigator tasks are considered most important. The analysis drew on a 2019 nationwide telephone survey o...

Background: Cancer-patient navigators who are oncology nurses support and connect patients to resources throughout the cancer care trajectory, including end of life. Although qualitative and cohort studies of navigated patients have been reported, no...

Patient navigation is a promising intervention to address barriers and improve access to cancer clinical trials. Although navigation has been widely studied across the cancer continuum, its role in facilitating clinical trial participation has not be...

Intelligent multi-purpose robotic assistants have the potential to assist nurses with a variety of non-critical tasks, such as object fetching, disinfecting areas, or supporting patient care. This paper focuses on enabling a multi-purpose robot to gu...

Continued smoking after a cancer diagnosis is causally associated with increased risks of all-cause and cancer-specific mortality, and of smoking-related second primary cancers. Patient navigation provides individualized assistance to address barrier...

Coordinating breast cancer treatment is a complex task that can overwhelm patients and their support networks. Though the Cancer Patient Navigator (CPN) program in Nova Scotia (NS) provides professional assistance to patients, certain groups of patie...

Background: Cervical cancer remains a significant health issue in Indonesia, where structural barriers, fragmented information, and sociocultural norms continue to hinder timely diagnosis and treatment. Families play a central role throughout the ill...

Barriers to cancer care, including transportation and Internet insecurity, are of special concern in low-resource communities. A patient-centered, telehealth-based, barrier-focused lay navigator program may mitigate such barriers. We share insights f...

Background: Patient navigation has been recognized as a promising strategy to address fragmented cancer care; however, evidence from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) remains limited, particularly regarding how navigation-related needs are ass...

Background/Objectives: Despite its effectiveness, colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates are suboptimal in the United States. Navigating patients towards complete CRC screening can be effective in addressing barriers. However, to date, much research...

Background/Objectives: Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States (U.S.). Virginia, South Carolina, and North Carolina are among the U.S. states with extraordinarily high rates of lung cancer mortality, particularly among B...

Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC) screening is effective in the prevention and early detection of cancer. Implementing evidence-based screening guidelines remains a challenge, especially in Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), where current...

Engaging people living with HIV who report substance use (PLWH-SU) in care is essential to HIV medical management and prevention of new HIV infections. Factors associated with poor engagement in HIV care include a combination of syndemic psychosocial...

Navigating the Indian health system is a challenge for people with tuberculosis (TB) symptoms. The onus of organizing care is on the patient and their families alone. Factors like gender discrimination and opportunity costs further aggravate this. As...

Background/Objectives: We here describe the impact of navigated care on utilization patterns of pharmacologic and minimally invasive overactive bladder therapies. Methods: This retrospective observational cohort study used electronic medical record d...

Background/Objectives: The digitalization of healthcare in general, and particularly of surgical care, increasingly requires patients to navigate online information and digital follow-up systems. Limited digital or navigational health literacy may hi...

(1) Objective: Our aim was to determine the extent to which comprehensive navigation augments the provincial health system for meeting the needs of newly-diagnosed cancer patients (clients). We also assessed reactions of attending physicians to compr...

Native Hawaiians (NHs) are a historically oppressed population disproportionately burdened by diabetes and related complications. The Kilolani Project, a patient navigator-centered, chronic disease management program, targets upstream drivers of heal...

Background/Objectives: Patient navigation is vital for improving healthcare accessibility and patient experience in China’s public hospitals, where high patient demand meets limited medical resources. Patient navigators (PNs) assist patients th...

Image-to-patient registration is a coordinate system matching process between real patients and medical images to actively utilize medical images such as computed tomography (CT) during surgery. This paper mainly deals with a markerless method utiliz...

Background/Objectives: Many Canadians experience challenges navigating the healthcare system during their cancer care. Nurse navigators are uniquely positioned to support patients with their clinical expertise in oncology and patient care, but they h...

The Australian health care system continues to struggle to meet the needs of people experiencing multiple complex chronic conditions. Australians who report poorer health continue to report poorer access to health care. Inequities in access are attri...

Patient-to-medical image registration is a crucial factor that affects the accuracy of image-guided ENT- and neurosurgery systems. In this study, a novel registration protocol that extracts the point cloud in the patient space using the contact appro...

Background: Transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) is one of the most frequently performed spinal fusion techniques, and this minimally invasive (MIS) approach has advantages over the traditional open approach. A drawback is the higher radiati...

Background/Objectives: Although lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States, rates of screening have remained persistently low nationwide. This study sought to identify barriers, facilitators, and support strategies...

Background/Objectives: In reverse shoulder arthroplasty (RSA), precise K-wire positioning of the glenoid component is critical to prevent complications such as glenoid loosening or instability as well as premature implant failure. Optimal component p...

The combination of 3D printing and navigation promises improvements in surgical procedures and outcomes for complex bone tumor resection of the trunk, but its features have rarely been described in the literature. Five patients with trunk tumors were...

Secondary school ATs (SSATs) are uniquely positioned healthcare providers at an optimal public health intersection where they can provide equitable healthcare to low socioeconomic status (SES) adolescents. SSATs face similar challenges to physicians...

Background: Total hip arthroplasty (THA) and the diagnosis of periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) have each acquired a technology that measures with high precision: intraoperative navigation, which reports component position to within a few degrees,...

Persons with complex care needs that arise due to chronic health conditions, serious illness, or social vulnerability are at increased risk of adverse health outcomes during transitions in care. To inform the development of a best practice guideline,...

The long-term outcomes of osteosarcoma have improved; however, patients with metastases, recurrence or axial disease continue to have a poor prognosis. Computer navigation in surgery is becoming ever more commonplace, and the proposed advantages, inc...

Purpose: To describe structural and systemic barriers to ophthalmic care experienced by underserved patients, particularly those facing language obstacles, immigration-related constraints, limited insurance coverage, financial hardship, and navigatio...

Background: Inequitable access to clinical trials persists in blood cancers despite ongoing equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) efforts. Despite the critical role of clinical trials in improving survival and outcomes, recruitment remains suboptima...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians suffer higher rates of cancer and poorer outcomes than the wider population. These disparities are exacerbated by rurality and remoteness due to reduced access and limited engagement with health servi...

Background/Objectives: Cancer is the second leading cause of death in Puerto Rico, its impact worsened by an aging population. Many survivors experience long-term effects that reduce health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Chronic comorbidities are c...

Background/Objectives: Many women at risk for and surviving with breast/ovarian cancer are simultaneously raising children. These women often experience unique challenges due to concurrent demands as both parents and patients with cancer. Community-b...

Background and Objectives: Orbital floor fractures are challenging to treat, due to the complex orbital anatomy and limited surgical access. Emerging technologies—such as virtual surgical planning (VSP), 3D printing, patient-specific implants (...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to describe the psychosocial needs of cancer survivors and examine whether sociodemographic factors and health care providers accessed are associated with needs being met. Methods: All Nova Scotia survivors meeti...

Despite growing awareness of the financial burden that a cancer diagnosis places on a household, there is limited understanding of the risk for food insecurity among this population. The current study reviewed literature focusing on the relationship...

Background/Objectives: This study investigates a surgical concept that restores constitutional bony alignment within predefined safety boundaries in primary total knee arthroplasty (TKA) using modern 3D navigation. The technique combines a standard k...

The use of pterygoid implants can be an attractive alternative to sinus bone grafting in the treatment of posterior atrophic maxilla. This technique has not been widely used because of the difficulty of the surgical access, the presence of vital stru...

Cancer screening rates among American Indian men remain low, without programs specifically designed for men. This paper describes the Community-Based Participatory Research processes and assessment of cancer screening behavior and the appropriateness...

People who inject drugs (PWIDs) remain underserved in HIV care. Evidence on rapid antiretroviral therapy (ART) for PWID is limited. We evaluated feasibility, effectiveness, safety, and patient-reported outcomes (PROs) for rapid initiation of bictegra...

Background: Rural and resource-constrained settings face major barriers to timely cancer screening, diagnosis, and treatment due to limited specialist availability and centralised service-delivery models. In the Eastern Cape, a largely rural province...

Several computer-assisted technologies, such as navigation and robotics, have been introduced to Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA) in order to increase surgical precision and reduce complications. However, these technologies are often criticized due to t...

Bone defects within the cranio-orbital complex present unique challenges in terms of surgical planning and reconstruction. This article presents a novel approach using PEEK material and advanced surgical technologies to address these challenges. A re...

There are significant hurdles to placing pregnant and parenting women (PPW) with a substance use disorder into treatment programs. This study uses qualitative analysis of case notes collected by a linkage to care expert (patient navigator) from over...

Background/Objectives: Despite demonstrated mortality benefits, annual low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) screening faces challenges in real-world adoption due to low uptake and poor longitudinal adherence. This review evaluates patient- and provide...

In recent years, patient-specific spinal drill guides (3DPGs) have gained widespread popularity. Several studies have shown that the accuracy of screw insertion with these guides is superior to that obtained using the freehand insertion technique, bu...