Are Latinos less satisfied with communication by health care providers?

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 409-417

  Morales, Leo S ^a,c   Cunningham, William E ^a,b   Brown, Julie A ^c   Liu, Honghu ^a   Hays, Ron D ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Hispanic; Latino, satisfaction, communication; Quality of care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNIC GROUP; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMMUNICATION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0032789463     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1497.1999.06198.x     Document Type: Article

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