Focus on Quality: Communication in the Health Care Encounter

Outlines findings from focus groups on the role of effective communication between physicians and patients in improving the quality of health care and outcomes. Analyzes responses by race/ethnicity and gender. Includes recommendations

Using Professionally Trained Interpreters to Increase Patient/Provider Satisfaction: Does It Work?

Examines the need for trained medical interpreters by comparing the satisfaction of emergency room patients, doctors, and triage and discharge nurses when provided with interpreters and when provided only with telephone language lines or ad hoc services

DEAR1 Is a Dominant Regulator of Acinar Morphogenesis and an Independent Predictor of Local Recurrence-Free Survival in Early-Onset Breast Cancer

Ann Killary and colleagues describe a new gene that is genetically altered in breast tumors, and that may provide a new breast cancer prognostic marker

sj-docx-1-jpc-10.1177_21501319221119692 – Supplemental material for Comfort With Telehealth Among Residents of an Underserved Urban Area

Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-jpc-10.1177_21501319221119692 for Comfort With Telehealth Among Residents of an Underserved Urban Area by Ann D. Bagchi, Kasny Damas, Nayeli Salazar de Noguera, Benjamin Melamed, Charles Menifield, Alok Baveja, Paul Weber and Shobha Swaminathan in Journal of Primary Care & Community Health</p