ArticleJournal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open2022
Breaking through barriers: the need for effective research to promote language-concordant communication as a facilitator of equitable emergency care.
Article in Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Managing Communication Challenges in Mental Health Care by Using Mobile Translation Apps: Protocol for a Simulation-Based Pilot Study.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Exploring the use of translation technologies to overcome language barriers in mental healthcare: a qualitative cross-country study.International journal for equity in health · 2026Article
- Evaluating Spanish Translations of Emergency Department Discharge Instructions by a Large Language Model: Tool Validation and Reliability Study.JMIR formative research · 2026Article
- Enhancing Patient-Centred Care and Cultural Safety in Medical Imaging: The Radiographers Experience of Communicating With Patients in a Multicultural and Multilingual Setting in Auckland.Journal of medical radiation sciences · 2025Article
- Bridging the language gap: Simulation-based education improves communication, confidence, and knowledge for emergency medicine residents working with interpreters.AEM education and training · 2025Article
- Emergency Department Presentations by International Migrants Requiring Interpreter Service: An Observational Study.Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA · 2025Observational
- Prohibiting Babel-A call for professional remote interpreting services in pre-operation anaesthesia information.PloS one · 2025Article
- Treating the whole patient: Facilitating health care for patients facing health inequity.Molecular genetics and metabolism reports · 2024Article
- Disparities and implicit bias in the management of low-risk febrile infants: a mixed methods study protocol.BMJ open · 2022Article
- Trends in demographic and employment characteristics of US emergency medical technicians and paramedics, 2011-2019.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2022Article
- Breaking through barriers: the need for effective research to promote language-concordant communication as a facilitator of equitable emergency care.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2022Article
- Improving Interpreter Access in the Pediatric Emergency Department: A Quality Improvement Initiative.Pediatric quality & safetyArticle
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Abstract
Individuals with limited English proficiency (LEP) are at high risk for adverse outcomes in the US health care system. This is particularly true for patients with LEP seeking care in the emergency department (ED). Although professional language interpretation improves the quality of care for these patients, it remains underused. The dynamic, discontinuous nature of an ED visit poses distinct challenges and opportunities for providing equitable, high-quality care for patients with LEP. Evidence-based best practices for identifying patients with LEP and using professional interpretation are well described but inadequately implemented. There are few examples in the literature of rigorous interventions to improve quality of care and outcomes for patients with LEP. There is an urgent need for high-quality research to improve communication with patients with LEP along the continuum of emergency care in order to achieve equity in outcomes.
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