ArticleJournal of immigrant and minority health2021
An Implementation Science Approach Improves Language Access in the Emergency Department.
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- Strategies to Increase Professional Interpreting in Clinical Settings: A Systematic Review.JAMA network open · 2025Pooled it
- Communicating Across Languages: Experiences of Spanish-Speaking People With Dementia and Care Partners in the Emergency Department.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2026Article
- Improving Accurate Documentation of Limited English Proficiency Patients at a Tertiary Affiliated Urgent Care Center in New York City.Journal of patient experience · 2026Article
- Testing a novel theoretical framework to study language services implementation in health care.PEC innovation · 2025Article
- Beyond diversity recruitment: Next steps to ensure that underrepresented emergency medicine residents thrive.AEM education and training · 2025Article
- When public health emergencies hit the front line: a qualitative study of the patient experience in the emergency department and outpatient infectious disease clinic during the 2022 Mpox clade IIb outbreak.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Characterizing Spanish-speaking patients' patient-centered care experiences in the emergency department.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2025Article
- The Profound Implications of the Meaning of Health for Health Care and Health Equity.The Milbank quarterly · 2023Article
- "Long Overdue": Nurse and Resident Physician Perspectives on Implementation of Dual-Handset Interpreter Phones in the Inpatient Setting.Health equity · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe underuse of interpreters for limited English proficiency (LEP) patient encounters is pervasive, particularly in the emergency department (ED).
objectiveTo measure the outcome of strategies to improve the use of interpreters by ED providers.
methodsPre- and post- intervention evaluation of the unmet need for language assistance (LA) in a public ED. Informed by the Behavior Change Wheel (BCW), strategies included: education, training, technology-based facilitators, local champions and environmental cues.
resultsPre-intervention, of the 110 patient charts with interpreter requests, 17 (15.5%) had documentation of an interpreter-mediated encounter or were seen by a certified bilingual provider (unmet need = 84.5%). Post intervention, of the 159 patient charts with interpreter requests, 47 (29.6%) had documentation of an interpreter-mediated encounter or were seen by a certified bilingual provider (unmet need = 70.4%), difference + 0.14 (95% CI = 0.03-0.23).
conclusionIn this pilot study, we found a statistically significant increase in the met need for language assistance.
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