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. 2023 Mar 1;13(3):e51-e53.
doi: 10.1542/hpeds.2022-007077.

Equity Is Multilingual: A Call for Language Justice in Pediatric Hospital Medicine

Victoria Parente  1 , Michelle J White  1
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Equity Is Multilingual: A Call for Language Justice in Pediatric Hospital Medicine

Victoria Parente et al. Hosp Pediatr. .
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CONFLICT OF INTEREST DISCLOSURES: Dr White is supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health 1KL2TR002554. Dr Parente is supported by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Development of the National Institutes of Health under award number K12HD105253.

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