Identification of Limited English Proficient Patients in Clinical Care

Limited English Proficient Patients and Time Spent in Therapeutic Range in a Warfarin Anticoagulation Clinic

BACKGROUND While anticoagulation clinics have been shown to deliver tailored, high-quality care to patients receiving warfarin therapy, communication barriers with limited English proficient (LEP) patients may lead to disparities in anticoagulation outcomes. METHODS AND RESULTS We analyzed data on 3770 patients receiving care from the Massachusetts General Hospital Anticoagulation Management ...

Applying Risk Reduction Features to Limited English Proficient Students

One can view the notion of risk from many vantage points in evaluation. Problems emerge in attempting to identify risks that affect limited English proficient students, and the relationship of these risks as barriers to targeted academic performance. The article introduces features of the Goal Attainment Risk Reduction model as possible evaluation considerations by a campus or district. Focus i...

Quality of reproductive health services to limited English proficient (LEP) patients.

BACKGROUND Medical patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) frequently receive health care services of suboptimal quality. METHODS We explored whether clients served with staff interpreters (language-discordant, LDI) receive reproductive health care of lower quality than clients seen by a bilingual clinician (language concordant, LC). We conducted a medical record review of 1,589 repro...

The Effects of Official English Laws on Limited-English-Proficient Workers

This paper examines whether workers with limited English skills suffer adverse effects in the labor market when states declare English the official language. Official English laws may harm individuals who do not speak English very well if employers view the laws as allowing or requiring them to adopt workplace Englishonly rules that lower the demand for limited-English-proficient workers. Using...

Best methods for increasing medical translators for limited English proficient patients: the carrot or the stick?