{"title":"Language Barriers and the Impact on Cancer Care","authors":"Peter Hofland","doi":"10.14229/onco.2023.09.16.010","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Patients who face language barriers are more likely to consume more healthcare services but are also experiencing more adverse events. These studies show that most of these increased costs were attributable to patients requiring and receiving interpreter services, while medical errors resulting in and adverse events occurred more frequently among patients with limited proficiency in English than among those who were proficient in English","PeriodicalId":496622,"journal":{"name":"Onco'zine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Onco'zine","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.14229/onco.2023.09.16.010","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Patients who face language barriers are more likely to consume more healthcare services but are also experiencing more adverse events. These studies show that most of these increased costs were attributable to patients requiring and receiving interpreter services, while medical errors resulting in and adverse events occurred more frequently among patients with limited proficiency in English than among those who were proficient in English