Associations among navigational support and health care utilization and costs in patients with advanced cancer: An analysis based on administrative health insurance data.
Daniel SchindelPimrapat GebertJohann FrickAnne LetschUlrike GrittnerLiane SchenkPublished in: Cancer medicine (2023)
The intervention was associated with decreased costs mainly as a result of a non-intended navigation effect. The social care nurses had navigated patients within the hospital early, needs-oriented and effectively but interpreted their function less cross-sectorally. Linkage of hospital-based navigators with the outpatient care sector needs further exploration.
Keyphrases
- healthcare
- health insurance
- palliative care
- affordable care act
- advanced cancer
- end stage renal disease
- randomized controlled trial
- chronic kidney disease
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- mental health
- peritoneal dialysis
- prognostic factors
- quality improvement
- pain management
- gene expression
- emergency department
- genome wide
- high density
- artificial intelligence
- dna methylation
- deep learning
- patient reported