Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality: The Case for Language Access

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  • Cheri Wilson Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, USA
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This paper aims to provide a description of the need for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) for Limited English Proficient (LEP) patients, an identification of how the lack of CLAS for LEP patients can compromise patient safety and healthcare quality, and discuss barriers to the provision of CLAS.

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volume 1  issue 4

pages  251- 253

publication date 2013-11-27

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