Impact of language barriers on patient satisfaction in an emergency department
- 1 February 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of General Internal Medicine
- Vol. 14 (2) , 82-87
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1525-1497.1999.00293.x
Abstract
Objective To examine patient satisfaction and willingness to return to an emergency department (ED) among non-English speakers.Keywords
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