Satisfaction with provider communication among Spanish-speaking medicaid enrollees

Ambulatory Pediatrics

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 500-504

  Mosen, David M ^a,b   Carlson, Matthew J ^b,c   Morales, Leo S ^d   Hanes, Pamela P ^d  

^a KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer assessment of health plan survey; Health disparities; Medicaid managed care; Ratings of provider communication

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; MALE; MANAGED CARE; MEDICAID; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PARENT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; RATING SCALE; SELF REPORT; SPAIN; SPEECH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 10044285884     PISSN: 15301567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1367/A04-019R1.1     Document Type: Article

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