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Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine 10/2008

Open Access 01-10-2008 | Editorial

A Better Measure of Patients’ Need for Interpreter Services

Author: Elizabeth Jacobs, MD, MPP

Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Issue 10/2008

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As Karliner and colleagues discuss in their article “Identification of Limited English Proficient Patients in Clinical Care”1 in the current issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine, the matter of knowing whether or not patients need the assistance of language access services is an important one. The limited English proficient (LEP) population in the US is large and growing2 and, as has been well documented, language barriers to access to medical care contribute to poor outcomes and health disparities in the LEP population.3,4 …
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U.S. Bureau of the Census. Ability to speak English: 2000; Census 2000 summary File 3(SF3) - Sample Data www.census.gov/population/socdemo/language
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Title
A Better Measure of Patients’ Need for Interpreter Services
Author
Elizabeth Jacobs, MD, MPP
Publication date
01-10-2008
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Journal of General Internal Medicine / Issue 10/2008
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Electronic ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-008-0759-x

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