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Caring for patients is an act of interpretation: we labor to understand the significance of a particular symptom and, when we have reached a diagnosis, we convert our medical jargon into plain language for the benefit of the patient. Caring for patients of limited English proficiency-a population that needs a very lite…

PURPOSE: To evaluate the readability and accountability (reliability, quality, and credibility) of online patient education materials for common eye conditions in English, Portuguese, and Spanish. DESIGN: Cross-sectional content analysis SUBJECTS: A total of 192 websites across seven eye diseases were analyzed in thre…

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Cerebral aneurysms are the major cause of spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage, and a common treatment is endovascular embolization. Aneurysmal recurrence after embolization is frequent, and clinical follow-up to monitor for this is critical to prevent subarachnoid hemorrhage. Herein, we asses…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate and compare the performance of GPT-4 and the newer GPT-4o in both English and French on ophthalmology board examination questions, assessing accuracy across various subspecialties and question formats, with a focus on image analysis. METHODS: A dataset of 600 multiple-choice questions from certi…

PURPOSE: It is well-known that patients' perceptions of their disease can impact management strategies and disease outcomes. Limited knowledge exists on such perceptions in dry eye disease (DED) and the role of language in these perceptions. Herein, we compared the perceptions about DED between Spanish- and English-spe…

INTRODUCTION: Artificial intelligence (AI), particularly ChatGPT, is becoming more and more prevalent in the healthcare field for tasks such as disease diagnosis and medical record analysis. The objective of this study is to evaluate the proficiency and accuracy of ChatGPT in different domains of clinical pharmacy case…

The Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ) measures the degree of autistic traits in clinical and non-clinical samples and has been validated in various countries and languages. However, the AQ has not been validated in Singapore, an Asian country whose population speaks predominantly English. Although previous validation studi…

Despite the importance of prosodic processing in utterance parsing, a majority of studies investigating boundary localization in a second language focus on word segmentation. The goal of the present study was to investigate the parsing of phrase boundaries in first and second languages from different prosodic typologie…

PURPOSE: This study examined the frequency, direction, and structural characteristics of code-switching (CS) during narratives by Spanish-English bilingual children with and without developmental language disorder (DLD) to determine whether children with DLD exhibit unique features in their CS that may inform clinical…

BACKGROUND: People with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) need to prevent the further decline of their cognitive functions, and one way to do so is by learning a foreign language. OBJECTIVE: This study describes the development of a protocol for a novel, non-pharmacological intervention for people with MCI that seeks to…

BACKGROUND: Hospitalized patients and caregivers who use a language other than English have worse health outcomes, including longer length of stay, more frequent readmissions, and increased rates of in-hospital adverse events. Children who experience clinical deterioration (as measured by a Rapid Response Team event) d…

Many patients with cleft palate in developing countries never receive postoperative speech assessment or therapy. The use of audiovisual recordings could improve access to post-repair speech care. The present study evaluated whether English-speaking speech-language pathologists (SLPs) could assess cleft palate patients…

Early oral language development lays an essential foundation for academic and socioemotional competencies but is vulnerable to the impact of family stress. Despite robust evidence that family stress affects early oral language development in monolingual samples, little is known about whether the family stress processes…

Purpose Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS), a motor-based speech disorder, has been well studied in English contexts. However, there is a limited understanding of the applicability of its features to other languages. Thus, this study sought to determine the applicability of the features identified in the English CAS lit…

Reading relies on a left-lateralized brain system, including occipito-temporal (OTC), temporo-parietal, and inferior frontal (IFC) cortices. Neuroimaging studies have investigated whether activation in these cortices is modulated by a language's orthographic depth (consistency of grapheme-to-phoneme conversion). In Spa…