Unit-based Pathways to Reduce InequitieS for familiEs speaking languages other than English (UPRISE).

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Health care inequities are common among individuals who speak languages other than English (LOE). Within our PICU, LOE families prefer communication via in-person interpreters (IPI). Spanish-speaking patient families are our largest LOE population; therefore, we sought to increase Spanish IPI utilization for medical updates in the PICU.

Methods

A quality improvement initiative in a 36-bed PICU included: the addition of a dedicated weekday Spanish-speaking IPI, the creation of communication tools, staff education, optimized identification of LOE families, and development of a language dashboard across multiple Plan, Do, Study, Act cycles. The primary outcome was IPI utilization rates for daily medical updates.

Results

Spanish IPI utilization for daily weekday

SUBMITTER: Magana-Soto JN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11358596 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature