Families facing language barriers in healthcare: When will policy catch up with the demographics and evidence?

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 164, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1261-1264

  Flores, Glenn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPENDICITIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

APPENDICITIS; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84901497423     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: 10976833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2014.02.033     Document Type: Editorial

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