Background Disparities in health care delivered to marginalized groups are unjust and result
in poor health outcomes that increase the cost of care for everyone. These disparities are …

Background and objective Studies conflict about whether language discordance increases
rates of hospital readmissions or emergency department (ED) revisits for adult and …

The purpose of palliative care is to ease the suffering of individuals with a serious and often
life-limiting illness throughout the course of their disease by providing holistic care that …

Results: Patients with low vulnerability consulted at emergency rooms three times more
often because their family physician was not available (p= 0.006) than patients with no …

Health disparities exist across different linguistic groups. Language barriers in primary care
can negatively affect access to healthcare services and the quality and safety of care at the …

Purpose Clinician–patient language concordance improves patient outcomes in non-
intensive care unit (ICU) settings. We sought to assess the association of ICU nurse–patient …

Abstract Language barriers (LB) contribute to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) health
inequities. People with LB were more likely to be SARS-CoV-2 positive despite lower testing …

Introduction Hospital safety monitoring systems are foundational to how adverse events are
identified and addressed. They are well positioned to bring equity-related safety issues to …

When patients and clinicians do not speak the same language, the quality and safety
concerns that can arise seem evident. However, the literature on the association between …

We use language to achieve understanding, and language barriers can have major health
consequences for patients with serious illness. While ethnic minorities are more likely to …