Patient Education and Counseling
Volume 78, Issue 2 , Pages 154-159 , February 2010

Provider–interpreter collaboration in bilingual health care: Competitions of control over interpreter-mediated interactions

  • Elaine Hsieh

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Received 10 September 2008 ,Revised 27 January 2009 ,Accepted 21 February 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2009.02.017

Patient Education and Counseling
Volume 78, Issue 2 , Pages 154-159 , February 2010

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