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. 2022 Jun;37(8):2120-2122.
doi: 10.1007/s11606-021-06998-w. Epub 2021 Aug 3.

Impact of Patient-Physician Language Concordance on Healthcare Utilization

Pooja Chandrashekar  1 , Rachel Zhang  2 , Moon Leung  2 , Sachin H Jain  3   4
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Impact of Patient-Physician Language Concordance on Healthcare Utilization

Pooja Chandrashekar et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2022 Jun.
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