Navigating language barriers under difficult circumstances

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 149, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 264-269

  Schenker, Yael ^a   Lo, Bernard ^a   Ettinger, Katharine M ^a,b   Fernandez, Alicia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MEDICAL SERVICE; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CASE REPORT; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; LANGUAGE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE;

COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 49849093195     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-149-4-200808190-00008     Document Type: Article

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