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Overcoming language barriers in healthcare: A protocol for investigating safe and effective communication when patients or clinicians use a second language

BACKGROUND: Miscommunication in the healthcare sector can be life-threatening. The rising number of migrant patients and foreign-trained staff means that communication errors between a healthcare practitioner and patient when one or both are speaking a second language are increasingly likely. Howeve...

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Autores principales: Meuter, Renata F. I., Gallois, Cindy, Segalowitz, Norman S., Ryder, Andrew G., Hocking, Julia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4566365/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26357948
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-015-1024-8