Quality of diabetes care for non-english-speaking patients: A comparative study

Western Journal of Medicine

Volumn 168, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 504-511

  Tocher, Thomas M ^a   Larson, Eric ^b  

^a Comm Hlth Ctr of Snohomish County ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC COMA; DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DIET THERAPY; FEMALE; FOOT AMPUTATION; FOOT ULCER; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RACE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; CAMBODIA; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REGISTRIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RUSSIA; VIETNAM; WASHINGTON;

EID: 0031866827     PISSN: 00930415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. US Bureau of the Census. Statistical Abstract of the US Census. 115th edition. Washington (DC): US Bureau of the Census; 1995
2. Woloshin S, Bickell NA, Schwartz LM, Gany F, Welch HG. Language barriers in medicine in the United States. JAMA 1995; 273:72-4-728
3. Marcos LR, Urcuyo L, Kesselman M, Alpert M. The language barrier in evaluating Spanish-American patients. Arch Gen Psychiatry 1973; 29:655-659
4. Marcos LR. Effects of interpreters on the evaluation of psychopathology in non-English-speaking patients. Am J Psychiatry 1979; 136:171-174
5. Ebden P, Carey OJ, Bhatt A, Harrison B. The bilingual consultation. Lancet 1988; 1:347
6. Vasquez C, Javier RA. The problem with interpreters: communicating with Spanish-speaking patients. Hosp Community Psychiatry 1991; 42:163-165
7. Baker DW, Parker RM, Williams MV, Coates WC, Pitkin K. Use and effectiveness of interpreters in an emergency department. JAMA 1996; 275:785-788
8. Manson A. Language concordance as a determinant of patient compliance and emergency room use in patients with asthma. Med Care 1988; 26:1119-1128
9. Wheat ME, Brownstein H, Kvitash V. Aspects of medical care of Soviet Jewish emigres, In Cross-cultural Medicine (special issue). West J Med 1983; 139:900-904
10. Putsch RW III. Cross-cultural communication: the special case of interpreters in health care. JAMA 1985; 254:3344-3348
11. Brod M, Heurtin-Roberts S. Older Russian emigres and medical care. In Cross-cultural Medicine - A Decade Later (special issue). West J Med 1992; 157:333-336
12. Fox SF, Stein JA. The effect of physician-patient communication on mammography utilization by different ethnic groups. Med Care 1991; 29:1065-1082
13. Burstin HR, Lipsitz SR, Brennan TA. Socioeconomic status and risk for substandard medical care. JAMA 1992; 268:2383-2387