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Developing Multilingual Prescription Instructions for Patients with Limited English Proficiency
- Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 23, Number 1, February 2012
- pp. 81-87
- 10.1353/hpu.2012.0000
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This article describes the development of a set of patient-centered prescription medication instructions and their translation into Chinese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese. Challenges and lessons learned from this process are reported to inform future efforts to develop easy-to-understand, multilingual materials for use in health care settings.