Impact of patient-family physician language concordance on healthcare utilisation and mortality: a retrospective cohort study of home care recipients in Ontario, Canada

• Main Authors: Claire Kendall (Author), Sharon Johnston (Author), Michael Reaume (Author), Michael Pugliese (Author), Douglas Manuel (Author), Denis Prud'homme (Author), Manish Sood (Author), Ricardo Batista (Author), Ewa Sucha (Author), Rhiannon Roberts (Author), Emily Rhodes (Author), Emily Seale (Author), Lise Bjerre (Author), Louise Bouchard (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMJ Publishing Group, 2024-03-01T00:00:00Z.
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Introduction As the world's linguistic diversity continues to increase at an unprecedented rate, a growing proportion of patients will be at risk of experiencing language barriers in primary care settings. We sought to examine whether patient-family physician language concordance in a primary c...