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| Tracy A BattagliaSummaryAffiliation: Boston University School of Medicine Country: USA Publications
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Feasibility of chronic disease patient navigation in an urban primary care practiceTracy A Battaglia
Women s Health Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Evans Department of Medicine and Women s Health Interdisciplinary Research Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
J Ambul Care Manage 35:38-49. 2012..Patients and providers responded positively. Incorporating telephone-based chronic disease navigation supported by MI into existing disease-specific navigation is efficacious and acceptable to those enrolled...
Boston Patient Navigation Research Program: the impact of navigation on time to diagnostic resolution after abnormal cancer screeningTracy A Battaglia
Women s Health Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Evans Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 21:1645-54. 2012..There is a need for controlled studies to assess the impact of patient navigation in vulnerable cancer populations...- The addition of internists to a breast health programTracy A Battaglia
Department of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine, Women s Health Unit, and Women s Health Interdisciplinary Research Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Breast J 18:58-64. 2012..Replication of this model requires the availability of more clinical training programs for non-surgical providers... - Disclosing intimate partner violence to health care clinicians - what a difference the setting makes: a qualitative studyJane Liebschutz
Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine, 801 Massachusetts Ave, Boston, MA 02118, USA
BMC Public Health 8:229. 2008..We analyzed interviews of IPV survivors to understand the risks and benefits of disclosing IPV to clinicians across specialties... - Assessing the impact of patient navigation: prevention and early detection metricsTracy A Battaglia
Women s Health Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
Cancer 117:3553-64. 2011..The lack of comparable metrics to evaluate prevention and early detection patient navigation programs impeded the ability to identify best practices... - Survivors of intimate partner violence speak out: trust in the patient-provider relationshipTracy A Battaglia
Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA 02118 2334, USA
J Gen Intern Med 18:617-23. 2003..To identify characteristics that facilitate trust in the patient-provider relationship among survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV)... - Predictors of timely follow-up after abnormal cancer screening among women seeking care at urban community health centersTracy A Battaglia
Women s Health Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, and Women s Health Interdisciplinary Research Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Cancer 116:913-21. 2010..We sought to measure time and identify predictors of timely follow-up among a cohort of racially/ethnically diverse inner city women with breast and cervical cancer screening abnormalities... 
Cancer prevention trials and primary care physicians: factors associated with recommending trial enrollmentTracy A Battaglia
Women s Health Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Evans Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, 720 Harrison Avenue, DOB Suite 1108, Boston, MA 02118 2334, USA
Cancer Detect Prev 30:34-7. 2006..To explore the willingness of primary care providers (PCPs) to encourage enrollment of patients into cancer prevention trials...- Improving follow-up to abnormal breast cancer screening in an urban population. A patient navigation interventionTracy A Battaglia
Women s Health Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
Cancer 109:359-67. 2007..003). Our data suggest a benefit of patient navigators in reducing delay in breast cancer care for poor and minority populations. Cancer 2007. (c) 2006 American Cancer Society... - Depression and anxiety diagnoses are not associated with delayed resolution of abnormal mammograms and pap tests among vulnerable womenAndrea C Kronman
Women s Health Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, and Women s Health Interdisciplinary Research Center, Boston University School of Medicine, 801 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, MA 02118, USA
J Gen Intern Med 27:452-7. 2012..Women with psychiatric disorders are less likely to receive cancer screening and may also have delays in diagnostic resolution after an abnormal screening test... - Patient navigation to increase mammography screening among inner city womenChristine E Phillips
Women s Health Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, and Women s Health Interdisciplinary Research Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
J Gen Intern Med 26:123-9. 2011..Lower mammography screening rates among minority and low income women contribute to increased morbidity and mortality from breast cancer... - The influence of black race on treatment and mortality for early-stage breast cancerJonathan P B Berz
Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
Med Care 47:986-92. 2009..Black Americans have higher mortality from breast cancer than white Americans. This study explores the influence of socioeconomic factors and black race on treatment and mortality for early-stage breast cancer... - Patient navigation: development of a protocol for describing what navigators doVictoria A Parker
Department of Health Policy and Management, Boston University School of Public Health, 715 Albany St T3W, Boston, MA 02118 2526, USA
Health Serv Res 45:514-31. 2010..To develop a structured protocol for observing patient navigators at work, describing and characterizing specific activities related to their goals... - Patient navigation for underserved patients diagnosed with breast cancerAparna Raj
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
Oncologist 17:1027-31. 2012..Future research should prospectively analyze quality metrics to assess measures to improve the process and outcomes of patient navigation in diverse underserved settings, compared with control non-navigated populations... - Adherence to conservative management recommendations for abnormal pap test results in adolescentsRebecca B Perkins
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
Obstet Gynecol 119:1157-63. 2012.... - National Cancer Institute Patient Navigation Research Program: methods, protocol, and measuresKaren M Freund
Women s Health Unit, Department of Medicine, and Women s Health Interdisciplinary Research Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Cancer 113:3391-9. 2008..To overcome these limitations, a 9-site National Cancer Institute Patient Navigation Research Program (PNRP) was initiated... - Lifestyle behaviors in Massachusetts adult cancer survivorsAmy Linsky
Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, 801 Massachusetts Avenue, 2nd Floor, GIM, Boston, MA 02118, USA
J Cancer Surviv 5:27-34. 2011..We sought to determine the prevalence of tobacco use, alcohol use, and physical inactivity among cancer survivors overall and site-specific survivors... - Predictors of aggressive therapy for nonmetastatic prostate carcinoma in Massachusetts from 1998 to 2002Adam J Rose
Department of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02118 2644, USA
Med Care 45:440-7. 2007..However, previous studies have not accounted for the clustering of outcomes by facility... - The role of numeracy on cancer screening among urban womenArpita Aggarwal
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298 0102, USA
Am J Health Behav 31:S57-68. 2007..To determine the role of numeracy on cancer screening knowledge and practices among an ethnically diverse population... - Patient navigation: state of the art or is it science?Kristen J Wells
Department of Health Outcomes and Behavior, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida 33612, USA
Cancer 113:1999-2010. 2008..Although cancer-related patient navigation interventions are being adopted increasingly across the United States and Canada, further research will be necessary to evaluate their efficacy and cost-effectiveness in improving cancer care...