Findings from the native navigators and the Cancer Continuum (NNACC) study.

Native Navigators and the Cancer Continuum (NNACC) was a community based participatory research study among Native American Cancer Research Corporation, CO; Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan, MI; Rapid City Regional Hospital's Walking Forward, SD; Great Plains Tribal Chairman's' Health Board, SD; and Muscogee (Creek) Nation, OK. The project goal was to collaborate, refine, expand, and adapt navigator/community education programs to address American Indian communities' and patients' needs across the continuum of cancer care (prevention through end-of-life). The intervention consisted of four to six site-specific education workshop series at all five sites.

Navigation as an intervention to eliminate disparities in American Indian communities.

Objectives: To identify the role of patient navigation in decreasing health care disparities through an exemplar of a successful patient navigation program for American Indian populations living in the Northern and Southern Plains of the United States.

Data Sources: Published literature and data from the Native Navigators and the Cancer Continuum study.

Conclusion: Native Patient Navigators successfully collaborated with local American Indian organizations to provide cancer education through a series of 24-hour workshops.

Online evaluation programs: benefits and limitations.

Patient navigation programs are increasing throughout the USA, yet some evaluation measures are too vague to determine what and how navigation functions. Through collaborative efforts an online evaluation program was developed. The goal of this evaluation program is to make data entry accurate, simple, and efficient.

Preliminary lessons learned from the "Native Navigators and the Cancer Continuum" (NNACC).

This community-based participatory research (CBPR) study was based on patient navigation (Navigator) among three original sites: Colorado, Michigan, and South Dakota. During 2010, the study added two sites: the Comanche Nation and the Muscogee (Creek) Nation (Oklahoma). The intervention includes 24-h of a Navigator-implemented cancer education program that addresses the full continuum of cancer care.

Strategies for implementing health promotion programs in multiple American Indian communities.

American Indians experience significant health disparities compared to the general U.S. population.

Tribal linkage and race data quality for American Indians in a state cancer registry.

Background: Racial misclassification of American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) individuals as non-AI/AN in cancer registries presents problems for cancer surveillance, research, and public health practice. The aim of this study was to investigate the efficiency of tribal linkages in enhancing the quality of racial information in state cancer registries.

Methods: Registry Plus Link Plus 2.