Objective To identify strategies to improve the quality of health services for Francophone
patients. Design A series of semistructured key informant interviews. Setting Northeastern …

Communication is essential to providing quality primary care. Linguistic concordance
between patients and physicians has been linked to improved health outcomes and greater …

Introduction: Rural and Northern Ontario francophones face many health-related challenges
including poor health status, a poor supply of French-speaking physicians, and the potential …

The proportion of family physicians reporting provision of patient care in Spanish changed
little between 2013 to 2020 but rose substantially for care delivered in other non-English …

Patients with limited-English-profi ciency (LEP) often experience inequality in health
services and poor health outcomes. Researchers have noted that when language barriers …

Background Use of available interpreter services by hospital clincial staff is often suboptimal,
despite evidence that trained interpreters contribute to quality of care and patient safety …

BACKGROUND: Communication between physicians and patients is particularly
challenging when patients do not speak the local language (in Switzerland, they are known …

Language discordance poses a barrier to effective physician-patient communication, and
health care outcomes, such as patient satisfaction, can be associated with language barriers …

BACKGROUND Language barriers in medical care are a large and growing problem in the
United States. Most research has focused on how language barriers affect patients. Less is …

Good communication with the patient is the cornerstone of effective and efficient
consultation. The absence of a common language between the patient and physician …