title: Partnership and empowerment program: a model for patient-centered, comprehensive, and cost-effective care.
abstract: The Partnership and Empowerment Program model offers a comprehensive, patient-centered, and cost-effective template for coordinating care for underinsured and uninsured patients with cancer. Attention to effective coordination, including use of internal and external resources, may result in decreased costs of care and improved patient compliance and health outcomes.
authors.affiliation: Day Treatment Center, Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, Florida, USA. corinne-brown@smh.com
authors.forename: Corinne
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bornstein
authors.forename: Catina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wilcox
mesh_terms: D003191:Comprehensive Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D017057:Medically Uninsured; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011209:Power, Psychological; D015397:Program Evaluation