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Background Language barriers between Canadian patients and health care providers are associated with poorer health outcomes, including decreased patient safety and quality of care, misdiagnosis and longer treatment initiation times, and increased mortality. However, research exploring language as a social determinant of health is limited, as Canadian health data are scattered across many jurisdictions, each with its own policies and procedures. This fragmentation makes it difficult...
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Background Appropriate use of medication is a key indicator of the quality of care provided in long-term care (LTC). The objective of this study was to determine whether resident-facility language concordance/discordance is associated with the odds of potentially inappropriate prescribing of antipsychotics (PIP-AP) in LTC. Methods We conducted a population-based, retrospective cohort study of LTC residents in Ontario, Canada from 2010 to 2019. We obtained resident language from standardized...
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Domaine d’intervention ou d’étude
Groupe(s) linguistique(s) minoritaire(s)
Population concernée
- Population aînée (1)
Pays
- Canada (2)
Province ou territoire canadien
- Ontario (1)
Année de publication
- Entre 2000 et 2026 (2)