The influence of patient-provider language concordance in cancer care: results of the Hispanic Outcomes by Language Approach (HOLA) randomized trial
Delivering linguistically competent care is critical to serving limited English proficiency (LEP) patients, and represents a key national strategy to help reduce health disparities. Current acceptable standards of communication with LEP patients include providers communicating through professional interpretive services, or bilingual providers speaking the patients ’ preferred language directly. This randomized clinical trial tests the impact of patient-provider language concordance on patient satisfaction.
Source: International Journal of Radiation Oncology * Biology * Physics - Category: Radiology Authors: Daniel M Seible, Souma Kundu, Alexa Azuara, Daniel R Cherry, Steven Arias, Vinit V Nalawade, Jonathan Cruz, Rolando Arreola, Maria Elena Martinez, Jesse N Nodora, Douglas A Rahn, James D Murphy Source Type: research