RT Journal Article
T1 Physician-Patient Language Discordance and Poor Health Outcomes: A Systematic Scoping Review
A1 Cano-Ibáñez, Naomi
A1 Zolfaghari, Yasmin
A1 Amezcua-Prieto, Carmen
A1 Khan, Khalid Saeed
K1 Language concordance
K1 Physician
K1 Patient
K1 Health outcomes
K1 Migrants
K1 Lenguaje
K1 Médicos
K1 Pacientes
K1 Evaluación de resultado en la atención de salud
K1 Migrantes
AB Objective: This systematic review assessed whether physician-patient language concordance, compared with discordance, is associated with better health outcomes. Methods: A systematic literature search was conducted, without language restrictions, using PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science, and PsycINFO, from inception to July 2020. We included studies that evaluated the effects of physician-patient language concordance on health outcomes. Articles were screened, selected, and data-extracted in duplicate. Review protocol was prospectively registered (PROSPERO, CRD42020157229). Results: There were 541 citations identified through databases and eight citations through reverse search and Google Scholar. A total of 15 articles (84,750 participants) were included reporting outcomes within five domains: diabetes care (four studies), inpatient care (five studies), cancer screening (three studies), healthcare counseling (two studies), and mental health care (one study). Ten studies were of good quality, four were fair, and one was poor, according to the modified Newcastle-Ottawa Scale. Eight studies (53%) showed a significant negative association between language discordance and at least one clinical outcome. Five studies (33%) found no association. Conclusion: Over half the evidence collated showed that physician-patient language concordance was associated with better health clinical outcomes.
PB Frontiers
YR 2021
FD 2021-03-19
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10668/4217
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10668/4217
LA en
NO Cano-Ibáñez N, Zolfaghari Y, Amezcua-Prieto C, Khan KS. Physician-Patient Language Discordance and Poor Health Outcomes: A Systematic Scoping Review. Front Public Health. 2021 Mar 19;9:629041
DS RISalud
RD Apr 8, 2025