Inaccurate language interpretation and its clinical significance in the medical encounters of Spanish-speaking latinos

Medical Care

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 940-947

  Napoles, Anna M ^a   Santoyo Olsson, Jasmine ^a   Karliner, Leah S ^a   Gregorich, Steven E ^a   Perez Stable, Eliseo J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Language interpretation; Latino Hispanic; Primary care; Quality of care

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIO RECORDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CODING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERNIST; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; CALIFORNIA; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSLATING (LANGUAGE); VIDEOCONFERENCING;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CALIFORNIA; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; TRANSLATING; VIDEOCONFERENCING;

EID: 84944325460     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000000422     Document Type: Article

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