{"entity":{"id":"paper-paskett-ca-cancer-j-clin","kind":"paper","name":"Patient navigation: an update on the state of the science","aka":[],"tldr":"Paper cited by one technology page, indexed on Europe PMC as PubMed record 21659419 and published in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians; the citing page links this DOI, which is how the record was matched.","summary":"Although patient navigation was introduced 2 decades ago, there remains a lack of consensus regarding its definition, the necessary qualifications of patient navigators, and its impact on the continuum of cancer care. This review provides an update to the 2008 review by Wells et al on patient navigation. Since then, there has been a significant increase in the number of published studies dealing with cancer patient navigation. The authors of the current review conducted a search by using the keywords \"navigation\" or \"navigator\" and \"cancer.\" Thirty-three articles published from November 2007 through July 2010 met the search criteria. Consistent with the prior review, there is building evidence of some degree of efficacy of patient navigation in terms of increasing cancer screening rates. However, there is less recent evidence concerning the benefit of patient navigation with regard to diagnostic follow-up and in the treatment setting, and a paucity of research focusing on patient navigation in cancer survivorship remains. Methodological limitations were noted in many studies, including small sample sizes and a lack of control groups. As patient navigation programs continue to develop across North America and beyond, further research will be required to determine the efficacy of cancer patient navigation across all aspects of the cancer care continuum.\n\nIndexed on Europe PMC as PubMed record 21659419 (DOI 10.3322/caac.20111). Matched by DOI alone: one technology page cites this DOI among its external links (the pages are listed under Related), and this page was written so that the citation resolves inside OnCo. No figure has been checked by an editor.","asOf":"2026-09-22","links":[{"label":"CA Cancer J Clin 2011","url":"https://doi.org/10.3322/caac.20111"},{"label":"PubMed","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21659419/"},{"label":"Europe PMC","url":"https://europepmc.org/article/MED/21659419"}],"tags":["europepmc-ingest"],"related":["oncology-nursing"],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":[],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":["ca-cancer-journal"],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"journal":"CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians","year":2011,"doi":"10.3322/caac.20111","pmid":"21659419","authors":"Paskett ED, Harrop JP, Wells KJ","paperType":"review","findings":[],"whatItMeans":"One technology page on OnCo cites this paper by its DOI; this record gives the citation a page of its own so a reader can follow it without leaving OnCo. Read the abstract above alongside the citing page listed under Related; the record was created automatically from the Europe PMC entry and its figures have not been checked by hand.","caveats":["Matched to the citing OnCo records by DOI alone; the summary reproduces the Europe PMC abstract and no figure has been verified against the full paper."]},"route":"/key-papers/paper-paskett-ca-cancer-j-clin/","neighbours":{"technology":[{"id":"oncology-nursing","kind":"technology","name":"Oncology nursing and nurse-led care","route":"/technologies/oncology-nursing/"}],"journal":[{"id":"ca-cancer-journal","kind":"journal","name":"CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians","route":"/journals/ca-cancer-journal/"}]}}