Inpatient Communication Barriers and Drivers When Caring for Limited English Proficiency Children.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Achieving effective communication between medical providers and families with limited English proficiency (LEP) in the hospital is difficult.

Objective

Our objective was to identify barriers to and drivers of effective interpreter service use when caring for hospitalized LEP children from the perspectives of pediatric medical providers and interpreters.

Design/participants/setting

We used Group Level Assessment (GLA), a structured qualitative participatory method that allows participants to directly produce and analyze data in an interactive group session. Participants from a single academic children's hospital generated individual responses to prompts and identified themes and relevant action items. Themes were further consolidated by our research team and

SUBMITTER: Choe AY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6817305 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature