Assessing the relationship between language proficiency and asthma morbidity among inner-city asthmatics

Medical Care

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 243-249

  Wisnivesky, Juan P ^a   Kattan, Meyer ^b   Evans, David ^b   Leventhal, Howard ^c   Musumeci Szabó, Tamara J ^c   McGinn, Thomas ^a   Halm, Ethan A ^a,d  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Asthma; Hispamcs; Language; Outcomes

Indexed keywords

BETA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; ANTIASTHMATIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CONTROL; DRUG DEPENDENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORBIDITY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SURVEY; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-ASTHMATIC AGENTS; ASTHMA; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURE; FEMALE; HEALTH RESOURCES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; NEW YORK CITY; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; URBAN POPULATION; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 59049098362     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e3181847606     Document Type: Article

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