作者
Janet N Chu, Jeanette Wong, Naomi S Bardach, Isabel Elaine Allen, Jill Barr-Walker, Maribel Sierra, Urmimala Sarkar, Elaine C Khoong
发表日期
2024/7/1
来源
BMJ Quality & Safety
卷号
33
期号
7
页码范围
456-469
出版商
BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
简介
Background and objective
Studies conflict about whether language discordance increases rates of hospital readmissions or emergency department (ED) revisits for adult and paediatric patients. The literature was systematically reviewed to investigate the association between language discordance and hospital readmission and ED revisit rates.
Data sources
Searches were performed in PubMed, Embase and Google Scholar on 21 January 2021, and updated on 27 October 2022. No date or language limits were used.
Study selection
Articles that (1) were peer-reviewed publications; (2) contained data about patient or parental language skills and (3) included either unplanned hospital readmission or ED revisit as one of the outcomes, were screened for inclusion. Articles were excluded if: unavailable in English; contained no primary data or inaccessible in a full-text form (eg, abstract only).
Data extraction and …
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