Responses to language barriers in consultations with refugees and asylum seekers: A telephone survey of Irish general practitioners

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages

  MacFarlane, Anne ^a   Glynn, Liam G ^a   Mosinkie, Phillip I ^a   Murphy, Andrew W ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; IRELAND; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFUGEE; STATISTICS;

ADULT; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; IRELAND; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFUGEES;

EID: 60849114422     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-9-68     Document Type: Article

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