Providing High-Quality Care for Limited English Proficient Patients: The Importance of Language Concordance and Interpreter Use

BACKGROUND: Provider–patient language discordance is related to worse quality care for limited English proficient (LEP) patients who speak Spanish. However, little is known about language barriers among LEP Asian-American patients. OBJECTIVE: We examined the effects of language discordance on the de...

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Autores principales: Ngo-Metzger, Quyen, Sorkin, Dara H., Phillips, Russell S., Greenfield, Sheldon, Massagli, Michael P., Clarridge, Brian, Kaplan, Sherrie H.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer-Verlag 2007
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Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2078537/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17957419
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11606-007-0340-z

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2078537/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17957419
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11606-007-0340-z

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