Patient Navigator

Preferred Label : Patient Navigator;

NCIt definition : Persons who are trained to guide and support those requiring assistance obtaining medical care. Such persons are sensitive to socio-economic factors within the community and provide a variety of services. Their primary responsibilities are to assist patients that have an abnormal examination or a positive finding to navigate through the health care system.;

Details

Origin ID

C48832;

UMLS CUI

C1709488;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Patient navigator (occupation) [SNOMED CT concept]
- patient navigation [MeSH concept]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- patient navigation [MeSH Descriptor]
- patient navigators [MeSH concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Professional or Occupational Group [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Patient navigator (occupation) [SNOMED CT concept]
- patient navigators [MeSH concept]
concept_is_in_subset
- CTRP Intervention Terminology [NCIt concept]
- CTRP Terminology [NCIt concept]

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