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Article: Interactive computer module benefits Hispanic patients most.
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- Internal Medicine News
- Article date:
- September 15, 2005
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NEW ORLEANS -- Spanish-language users of a bilingual interactive computer program in an urgent care clinic reaped the most educational benefit from the system, a study has shown.
The findings suggest that computerized educational modules may be an important tool to help reduce health care disparities among medically under-served populations, Bonnie Leeman-Castillo said in a presentation at the annual meeting of the Society of General Internal Medicine.
During a 4-month period, 296 adults seeking care for acute respiratory tract infections at an urgent care facility in Denver were referred to a free-standing computer that housed an audiovisual education ...