Language barriers in medicine in the United States.

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• Publication year

  1995

• Venue

  Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)

• Publication date

  1995-03-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1001/JAMA.1995.03520330054037PMID 7853631
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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