Bilingual medical students as interpreters - What are the benefits and risks?

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 121, Issue 1282, 2008, Pages 15-28

  Yang, Chwan Fen ^a   Gray, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; CULTURAL SENSITIVITY; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERPRETER SERVICE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL STUDENT; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; STUDENT ATTITUDE; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; LANGUAGE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK ASSESSMENT;

COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; HUMANS; MULTILINGUALISM; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TRANSLATING;

EID: 54749111923     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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