Communication Barriers
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Preparing for and responding to pandemic influenza: implications for people with disabilities.

29 Sep 2009 State, local, tribal, and territorial emergency managers and public health officials must address the specific needs of people with disabilities in their pandemic influenza plans. Evidence from Hurricane Katrina indicated that this population was ... Read more...

An analysis of the association between parental acculturation and children's medication use.

26 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVES: We examined how Hispanic children, with stratification according to language to approximate acculturation, differed with respect to sociodemographic characteristics and medication use. We also examined how different factors were ... Read more...

Beliefs and barriers to follow-up after an emergency department asthma visit: a randomized trial.

26 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: Studies in urban emergency departments (EDs) have found poor quality of chronic asthma care and identified beliefs and barriers associated with low rates of follow-up with a primary care provider (PCP). OBJECTIVES: To develop an ED-based ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Communication Barriers'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Preparing for and responding to pandemic influenza: implications for people with disabilities. 29 Sep 2009
• An analysis of the association between parental acculturation and children's medication use. 26 Sep 2009
• Beliefs and barriers to follow-up after an emergency department asthma visit: a randomized trial. 26 Sep 2009
• A communication wipeout by gabbling presenters. 22 Sep 2009
• Sugar-coaters and straight talkers: communicating about developmental delays in primary care. 12 Sep 2009
• Information-seeking and its predictors in low-income pregnant women. 30 Aug 2009
• Older adults' pain communication: the effect of interruption. 30 Aug 2009
• The importance of time in ethical decision making. 30 Aug 2009
• Ergonomics. Case study: safety training issues for Hispanic construction workers. 30 Aug 2009
• Racial differences in motivators and barriers to blood donation among blood donors. 30 Aug 2009
• Developing the communicative participation item bank: Rasch analysis results from a spasmodic dysphonia sample. 26 Aug 2009
• Perinatal care for South Asian immigrant women and women born in Canada: telephone survey of users. 30 Jul 2009
• Fire in the operating room during open heart surgery: a case report. 30 Jul 2009
• Communication and human patient simulation in psychiatric nursing. 30 Jul 2009
• Primary household language and asthma care among Latino children. 30 Jul 2009
• Professionals with hearing loss: maintaining that competitive edge. 30 Jul 2009
• Understanding barriers to cervical cancer screening among Hispanic women. 30 Jul 2009
• Effects of it takes two to talk--the hanen program for parents of preschool children with cerebral palsy: findings from an exploratory study. 25 Jul 2009
• Recognition of depression in people of different cultures: a qualitative study. 25 Jul 2009
• Medical interpreter knowledge of cancer and cancer clinical trials. 13 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Communication Barriers'

Definition: Those factors, such as language or sociocultural relationships, which interfere in the meaningful interpretation and transmission of ideas between individuals or groups.

Descriptor UI: D003144

Alternative terms: Communication Barriers; Barrier, Communication; Barriers, Communication; Communication Barrier;

Tree Number: F01.145.209.213; L01.143.230;

History Note: 91(79); was see under COMMUNICATION 1979-90

Technical Notes: language, cultural, sociol, etc., communication barriers; no qualif; coord IM with specific "barrier" if pertinent (IM) but if language is the barrier, note that MULTILINGUALISM is also available