After a hospitalization, home health care enables patients to recover where they feel most comfortable: in their own home. Nurses visit patients there to provide care with the goal of keeping them at home, given that hospital ...
Aug 10, 2023
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Faculty from the University of Minnesota and HealthPartners Institute recently published an analysis in JAMA Network Open on the first large-scale study in the U.S. to demonstrate that a patient's language and need for an ...
May 3, 2023
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Many Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander adults may have trouble accessing health care and insurance because of language barriers, a new analysis indicates.
Dec 28, 2022
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Communication failures are a known source of medical errors and are especially likely to occur when there are language barriers. A new study at 21 children's hospitals throughout the U.S., led by Alisa Khan, MD, MPH, at Boston ...
Jun 13, 2022
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Although telephone and videoconferencing visits allowed many patients to safely access medical care during the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, these virtual care platforms unintentionally disenfranchised a large segment of ...
Jan 19, 2022
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(HealthDay)—Emergency department interpreters are vital to quality care, according to an article published in the October issue of the Annals of Emergency Medicine.
Sep 25, 2018
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There is healthy reasoning in installing bedside interpreter-phone systems in hospitals so that patients can be connected to professional interpreters around the clock. It helps bridge the language barrier that often exists ...
Feb 9, 2017
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JAMA Internal Medicine is publishing two articles and an editorial focusing on Latino patients with type 2 diabetes.
Jan 23, 2017
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Failure to directly and appropriately assess language proficiency when recruiting patients to randomised controlled trials (RCTs) for diabetes treatments may be leading to black and ethnic minority (BAME) patients being underrepresented ...
Sep 27, 2016
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A team of researchers at the University of Connecticut is reexamining a decades-long debate as to whether deaf children should learn sign language to maximize their potential for optimal development.
Feb 13, 2016
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