Communication difficulties with limited English proficiency patients: Clinician perceptions of clinical risk and patterns of use of interpreters

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 124, Issue 1342, 2011, Pages 23-38

  Gray, Ben ^a   Stanley, James ^a   Stubbe, Maria ^a   Hilder, Jo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; DENTIST; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; NURSE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL WORKER;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSES; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRANSLATING;

EID: 80052740225     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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