Family Physicians Increasingly Deliver Care in Diverse Languages
Aimee R. Eden, Andrew Bazemore, Zachary J. Morgan, Yalda Jabbarpour
Abstract
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 languages. Physician-patient language concordance is associated with better clinical outcomes and higher patient satisfaction, serves as a proxy indicator for workforce diversity, and should be monitored and encouraged as the US population continues to diversify.
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MedicineConcordanceWorkforceProxy (statistics)Family medicineDiversity (politics)MEDLINEPatient careNursingMachine learningAnthropologySociologyComputer scienceEconomicsInternal medicinePolitical scienceEconomic growthLawInterpreting and Communication in HealthcareGlobal Health Workforce Issues