Patient-Provider Communication Disparities by Limited English Proficiency (LEP): Trends from the US Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, 2006-2015.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Individuals with limited English proficiency (LEP) have worse healthcare access and report lower quality of care compared to individuals who are proficient in English. Policy efforts to improve patient-provider communication for LEP individuals have been going on for decades but linguistic disparities persist.

Objective

To describe trends in patient-provider communication by limited English proficiency (LEP) from 2006 to 2015.

Design

We estimated interrupted time series models for three measures of patient-provider communication, testing for differences in both means (intercepts) and trends (slopes) before and after 2010 and differences in differences by English proficiency.

Participants

A nationally representative sample of the US non-institutionali

SUBMITTER: Berdahl TA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6667581 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature