"Does this doctor speak my language?" Improving the characterization of physician non-english language skills

Health Services Research

Volumn 47, Issue 1 PART 2, 2012, Pages 556-569

  Diamond, Lisa C ^a   Luft, Harold S ^b   Chung, Sukyung ^b   Jacobs, Elizabeth A ^c  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

language barriers; organizational policy; Physician patient communication

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PHYSICIAN; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; VALIDATION PROCESS;

COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; SAN FRANCISCO;

EID: 84855856124     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2011.01338.x     Document Type: Article

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