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ReviewHealth equity2019

Teaching Medical Spanish to Improve Population Health: Evidence for Incorporating Language Education and Assessment in U.S. Medical Schools.

Pilar Ortega, Norma Pérez, Brenda Robles, Yumirle Turmelle, David Acosta

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Review in Health equity, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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26citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. The Flipped Classroom Approach: A Feasible Way to Teach the Physical Exam in Spanish.MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources · 2025
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  12. Integrating Gender-Affirming Care in a Medical Spanish Endocrine System Curriculum.MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources · 2024
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  16. Language barriers and kidney transplantation in children.Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) · 2023
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  18. COVID-19 Education for Health Professionals Caring for Spanish-Speaking Patients.MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Pilar OrtegaDepartment of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
Norma PérezHispanic Center of Excellence, School of Medicine Special Programs, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas.
Brenda RoblesLanguage Interpreters Program, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, Maryland.
Yumirle TurmelleDepartment of Pediatrics, Washington University St Louis School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri.
David AcostaAssociation of American Medical Colleges, Washington, District of Columbia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Hispanic/Latino healthlanguage concordancelimited English proficiencymedical Spanishpatient/physician communicationpopulation health

Identifiers

PMID31701080
PMCPMC6830530

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