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Frances Wang
Researcher at University of California, San Francisco
Publications - 22
Citations - 5699
Frances Wang is an academic researcher from University of California, San Francisco. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health literacy & Regimen. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 22 publications receiving 5320 citations. Previous affiliations of Frances Wang include San Francisco General Hospital.
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Association of health literacy with diabetes outcomes.
Dean Schillinger,Kevin Grumbach,John D. Piette,Frances Wang,Dennis Osmond,Carolyn Daher,Jorge Palacios,Gabriela Diaz Sullivan,Andrew B. Bindman +8 more
TL;DR: Inadequate health literacy may contribute to the disproportionate burden of diabetes-related problems among disadvantaged populations and efforts should focus on developing and evaluating interventions to improve diabetes outcomes among patients with inadequate health literacy.
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Closing the Loop: Physician Communication With Diabetic Patients Who Have Low Health Literacy
Dean Schillinger,John D. Piette,Kevin Grumbach,Frances Wang,Clifford Wilson,Carolyn Daher,Krishelle Leong-Grotz,Cesar M. Castro,Andrew B. Bindman +8 more
TL;DR: The extent to which primary care physicians working in a public hospital assess patient recall and comprehension of new concepts during outpatient encounters was measured and the association between physicians' application of this interactive communication strategy and patients' glycemic control was examined.
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Effects of limited English proficiency and physician language on health care comprehension.
TL;DR: Limited English proficiency is a barrier to medical comprehension and increases the risk of adverse medication reactions and access to language-concordant physicians substantially mitigates but does not eliminate language barriers.
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Functional health literacy and the quality of physician-patient communication among diabetes patients.
TL;DR: Poor FHL appears to be a marker for oral communication problems, particularly in the technical, explanatory domains of clinician-patient dialogue, in patients with poor functional health literacy.
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Physician language ability and cultural competence. An exploratory study of communication with Spanish-speaking patients.
Alicia Fernandez,Dean Schillinger,Kevin Grumbach,Anne Rosenthal,Anita L. Stewart,Frances Wang,Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable +6 more
TL;DR: Physician self-rated language ability and cultural competence are independently associated with patients’ reports of interpersonal process of care in patient-centered domains, providing empiric support for the importance of language andcultural competence in the primary care of Spanish-speaking patients.