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Patient-physician Language Concordance and Primary Care Screening Among Spanish-speaking Patients

2011; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Volume: 49; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1097/mlr.0b013e318215d803

1537-1948

Pracha Eamranond, Roger B. Davis, Russell S. Phillips, Christina C. Wee,

Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare

Language discordance between patient and physician is associated with worse patient self-reported healthcare quality. As Hispanic patients have low rates of cardiovascular and cancer screening, we sought to determine whether patient-physician language concordance was associated with differences in rates of screening.