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[A communication tool adapted to English-speaking patients]
1Département médecine interne, Centre hospitalier universitaire de Rouen, Rouen, France. Melanie.Delacour@chu-rouen.fr
Abstract:
Rouen university hospital cares for increasing numbers of non-French-speaking patients: tourists, patients from the Mediterranean basin, Eastern Europe, etc. To optimise this care, a communication tool was developed in 2012 to be used with English-speaking patients.
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