Diabetes care and language discordance among Chinese and Latino primary care patients

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 473-479

  Gany, Francesca ^a,b   Leng, Jennifer C F ^a,b   Winston, Ginger ^a,c   Tseng, Chi Hong ^a   Qin, Angie ^a   Changrani, Jyotsna ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese; Diabetes; Interpreting; Latino; Processes of care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC PATIENT; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERPRETER SERVICE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; SPAIN; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; ASIAN AMERICAN; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; LANGUAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PUBLICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ASIAN AMERICANS; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK CITY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; TRANSLATIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860241051     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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