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Preference for native language when discussing surgical care

October 6, 2015 By IDwebmaster

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From the Medical Press website:

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Spanish-speaking families are more satisfied with and better understand their children’s surgical care when they communicate with the surgical team in their native language, according to a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford.”

Read more:

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-09-spanish-speaking-families-native-language-discussing.html

And here’s the abstract of the study mentioned in the article:

https://www.jpedsurg.org/article/S0022-3468(14)00860-4/abstract

 

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