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Family Physicians Increasingly Deliver Care in Diverse Languages

2022

AUTHOR(S)
Eden, Aimee R
Bazemore, Andrew W
Morgan, Zachary J
Jabbarpour, Yalda
TOPIC(S)
Achieving Health System Goals
Role of Primary Care
KEYWORD(S)
Quality Of Care
VOLUME
35(1):5-6

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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