On equal footing? The impact of patient companions on Lifeworld integration and patient-centeredness in linguistically diverse emergency consultations

Abstract Introduction Patient companions (PCs) can have an ambiguous impact on the quality of communication during multilingual medical consultations and therefore on health outcomes. Studies of multilingual medical consultations have focused mainly on PCs’ role as interpreters, with less regard to...

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Main Authors: Antoon Cox, Marianne Couillard Larocque, Nicolas Dauby, Yvan Leanza
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2025-05-01
Series:International Journal for Equity in Health
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-025-02425-2
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