Patient Navigators for Brachial Plexus Birth Injuries
Patient navigators attend visits with health care teams for the administrative aspects of patients' health-related social needs. We describe an innovative patient navigator intervention in an orthopedic clinic focused on brachial plexus birth injury, a diagnosis that disproportionately affects medically underserved and underresourced children, and present policy implications of this intervention.
Authors
- Andrea S. Bauer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7709-3098)
- Patrice Melvin
- Melicia Y. Whitley
- Lois K. Lee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3551-5050)
- Valerie L. Ward
- Jonathan Ainsworth
Institutions
- Boston Children's Hospital (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- Boston Children's Museum (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- PEDIATRICS
- Published
- 2025-09-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2025-070739j
- Primary Topic
- Nerve Injury and Rehabilitation
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00