Unraveling the relationship between literacy, language proficiency, and patient-physician communication

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 398-402

  Sudore, Rebecca L ^a,b   Landefeld, C Seth ^a,b   Pérez Stable, Eliseo J ^c   Bibbins Domingo, Kirsten ^c,d   Williams, Brie A ^a,b   Schillinger, Dean ^c,d  

^a SAN FRANCISCO VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Division of Geriatrics   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Health disparities; Health literacy; Limited English proficiency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTPATIENT; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH DISPARITY; HISPANIC; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNICATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67349215428     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2009.02.019     Document Type: Article

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