Improving Communication with Aboriginal Hospital Inpatients:: A Quasi-Experimental Interventional Study

The Communicate Study group; Curtis Roman; Elise O'Connor; Natasha Keillor; Robyn Aitken

doi:10.5694/mja2.50700

Improving Communication with Aboriginal Hospital Inpatients: A Quasi-Experimental Interventional Study

The Communicate Study group, Curtis Roman, Elise O'Connor, Natasha Keillor, Robyn Aitken

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Abstract

As 60% of Indigenous people in the Northern Territory primarily speak languages other than English,1, 2 greater use of interpreters in health care could improve outcomes for patients.3, 4 Barriers to using Aboriginal interpreters at Royal Darwin Hospital have been described.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	180-181
Number of pages	2
Journal	Medical Journal of Australia
Volume	213
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5694/mja2.50700
Publication status	Published - Aug 2020

Keywords

Cultural competency
Health communication
Patient safety
Physician-patient relations

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