Community pharmacists' use of language-access services in the United States

Journal of the American Pharmacists Association

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 368-372

  Feichtl, Maria Maniscalco ^a,b   Clauson, Kevin A ^a   Alkhateeb, Fadi M ^c   Jamass, Daniel S ^a,d   Polen, Hyla H ^e  

^a NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b XLHealth and Care Improvement Plus   (United States)

^c University of Charleston   (United States)

^d Walgreens   (United States)

^e Unnatural Language Processing   (United States)

Author keywords

Community pharmacists; English as second language; Language access services; Workflow

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PATIENT COUNSELING; PHARMACIST ATTITUDE; PHARMACY TECHNICIAN; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; INFORMATION SERVICE; LANGUAGE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PHARMACIST; PHARMACY; STANDARD; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; COMMUNITY PHARMACY SERVICES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFORMATION SERVICES; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE; PHARMACISTS; SOFTWARE; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855553615     PISSN: 15443191     EISSN: 15443450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1331/JAPhA.2011.10063     Document Type: Article

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