Access to multilingual medication instructions at New York City pharmacies

Journal of Urban Health

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 742-754

  Weiss, Linda ^a   Gany, Francesca ^b   Rosenfeld, Peri ^c   Carrasquillo, Olveen ^d   Sharif, Iman ^e   Behar, Elana ^a   Ambizas, Emily ^f   Patel, Priti ^f   Schwartz, Lauren ^g,h   Mangione, Robert ^f  

^a NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

^c VISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^e MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g NEW YORK CITY POISON CONTROL CENTER   (United States)

^h NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene   (United States)

Author keywords

Immigrants; Label translation; Language access; LEP patients; Medical instructions; Pharmacists

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PHARMACIST; PHARMACY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; CLINICAL PHARMACY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; COUNSELING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG LABELING; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEW YORK CITY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICES; PHARMACIES; TRANSLATING; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 37249031024     PISSN: 10993460     EISSN: 14682869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11524-007-9221-3     Document Type: Article

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