Challenges and opportunities in the care of international patients: Clinical and health services issues for academic medical centers

Academic Medicine

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 189-192

  Martin, Don R ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; UNITED STATES; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; TRAVEL; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; BALTIMORE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNICATION; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; HOSPITAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33645802815     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-200602000-00021     Document Type: Review

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