Frequency and effects of non-English consultations in New Zealand general practice

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 120, Issue 1264, 2007, Pages

  Wearn, Andy ^a   Goodyear Smith, Felicity ^a   Everts, Hans ^a   Huggard, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; COMMUNICATION SKILL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONSULTATION; CONTENT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPRETER SERVICE; INTERVIEW; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC ISLANDER; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; TELEPHONE; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN RELATION; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; STATISTICS;

ADULT; CULTURE; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS;

EID: 37249077434     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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