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Overview of Items Tested
- Language Access (10 items): Use and rating of interpreters, discrimination by language
- Patient-Doctor Communication (10 items): Health and mental counseling, use of complementary/alternative medicine
- Shared Decision Making (7 items): Alternatives, preferences, values
- Discrimination (12 items)*: Insurance, race/ethnicity, language, source, how knew
- Trust (7 items): truth-telling, caring, level of trust, rating, cared for you as a person
- Health Literacy (41 items):** Tools; problems/concerns; self-management; medicines; forms; test results; navigation
* One of these items is added to the language access
**Separate project focused on this domain
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