Erschienen in:
01.03.2013
What Do We Know About Patient–Clinician Interactions with Interpreters?
verfasst von:
Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, MD, Leah S. Karliner, MD MAS
Erschienen in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Ausgabe 3/2013
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Excerpt
Communicating across language barriers is a challenge for clinicians all across the United States. The American Community Survey estimated that about 20 % of the adult US population speaks a language other than English at home, with almost half of these speaking English less than very well.
1 Spanish and Chinese are the most common preferred languages of limited English proficient (LEP) adults, but hundreds of additional languages are in use throughout the U.S. …