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A Patient Navigation Intervention for Drug-Involved Former Prison Inmates
Ingrid A. Binswanger, MD, MPH, MS, Elizabeth Whitley, Paul-Ryan Haffey, Shane R. Mueller, MSW & Sung-Joon Min, PhD
Vol. 36 Iss. 1 (2015)
Former prison inmates experience high rates of hospitalizations and death during the transition from prison to the community, particularly from drug-related causes and early after release. The authors designed a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of patient navigation to reduce barriers to health care and hospitalizations for former prison inmates.
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