The impact of medical interpretation method on time and errors

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2007, Pages 319-323

  Gany, Francesca ^a   Kapelusznik, Luciano ^a   Prakash, Kavitha ^b,c   Gonzalez, Javier ^a   Orta, Lurmag Y ^d   Tseng, Chi Hong ^a   Changrani, Jyotsna ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE   (United States)

^d MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Access to care; Immigrant health; Interpreting; Language; Medical errors

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIO RECORDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTERPRETER SERVICE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING ALGORITHM; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL STAFF; NORMAL HUMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; PATIENT SIMULATION; PILOT PROJECTS; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES; TRANSLATING;

EID: 35448971108     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-007-0361-7     Document Type: Article

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