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Nursing Research and Practice
Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 702683, 13 pages
Evaluating the Linguistic Appropriateness and Cultural Sensitivity of a Self-Report System for Spanish-Speaking Patients with Cancer
1University of South Florida, 4202 E Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
2University of Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA 02125, USA
3Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 450 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA
4University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Boulevard, Orlando, FL 32816, USA
5California Department of State Hospitals, P.O. Box 2297, Vacaville, CA 95696, USA
Received 18 January 2014; Revised 3 June 2014; Accepted 4 June 2014; Published 19 June 2014
Academic Editor: Patsy Yates
Copyright © 2014 Cindy Tofthagen et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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