Overcoming language barriers with foreign-language speaking patients: A survey to investigate intra-hospital variation in attitudes and practices

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Hudelson, Patricia ^a   Vilpert, Sarah ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; NURSE; PHYSICIAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL WORKER; SWITZERLAND; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; FRANCE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MANDATORY PROGRAM; MEDICAL STAFF; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; FRANCE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MANDATORY PROGRAMS; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 70450250195     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-9-187     Document Type: Article

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