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Effects of limited English proficiency and physician language on health care comprehension
Journal of General Internal Medicine · 2005 · Vol. 20(9) · pp. 800–806
Elisabeth Wilson✉(University of California, San Francisco)Alice Hm Chen(Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum)Kevin Grumbach(University of California, San Francisco)Frances Wang(San Francisco General Hospital)Alicia Fernández(University of California, San Francisco)
Interpreting and Communication in HealthcareLanguage, Discourse, Communication Strategieslinguistics and terminology studiesMedicineLimited English proficiencyComprehensionConcordanceOdds ratioFamily medicineHealth careLanguage proficiencyLogistic regressionConfidence interval
Funding
- Open Society Institute
- Harvard University
- California Endowment
- National Institutes of Health
- University of California, San Francisco
- National Institute on Aging
- National Institute of Nursing Research
- National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities
- National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
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