RT Journal
A1 Bodenheimer T
T1 Building blocks of the patient-centered medical/health home: Comment on “colorectal cancer screening among ethnically diverse, low-income patients”
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 2011
FD May 23
VO 171
IS 10
SP 912
OP 913
DO 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.210
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2011.210
AB 
In the study by Lasser et al,1 patient navigators, who also could be called health care coaches, are community health care workers trained to guide patients through the health care system. Lasser et al found that patients contacted by language-concordant patient navigators are more likely than patients undergoing usual care to be screened for colorectal cancer.