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This study explores faculty members' perceptions in tourism education programs regarding the use of digital technologies to enhance English language proficiency among learners preparing for careers as tourist guides. The study sample consisted of sixty-five instructors from tourist guide training institutions. Data wer…

BACKGROUND: Handoffs are critical information exchanges between healthcare providers. Patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) face increased risk of adverse events from inadequate handoffs; however, the impact of current handoff practices on their care remains understudied. OBJECTIVE: To understand hospitalist…

This study employed knowledge graph technology to analyze the research status and hot spots of Realgar and provide guidance for clinical application and further research of this drug. The research articles both in English and Chinese involving Realgar were retrieved from five databases including CNKI, Wanfang, VIP, Sin…

INTRODUCTION: Language discordance is a known barrier to diabetes care in patients with type 2 diabetes. This study aimed to better understand the subjective experiences of a group of Spanish-speaking study participants with low English proficiency who were learning to manage their diabetes using a language-concordant…

OBJECTIVES: A lack of diversity amongst participants in cancer clinical trials has raised scrutiny over the past decade. Patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) are further excluded. One modifiable reason for low LEP participation is a lack of non-English consent forms. METHODS: We queried the clinical trials…

OBJECTIVE: To determine the association of Spanish as a primary language for a family with the health outcomes of Hispanic infants with very low birth weight (VLBW, <1500g). STUDY DESIGN: Data from the California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative (CPQCC) linked to hospital discharge records were analyzed. Hispanic…

PURPOSE: This study (a) documents the duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) and (b) examines both social and clinical correlates of DUP in a sample of U.S. Latinxs with first-episode psychosis (FEP). METHODS: Data were collected for a longitudinal study evaluating a community education campaign to help primarily Spani…

INTRODUCTION: We need to understand the continued concerns and acceptability of COVID-19 vaccines within marginalized communities in the United States. Our study explores the concerns and acceptability of COVID-19 vaccines, by language group, at a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in Rhode Island. METHODS: We c…

A challenge facing health systems such as the English National Health Service (NHS), which operate in a context of diversity of provision and scarcity of financial resources, is how organisations engaged in the provision of services can be encouraged to adopt collective resource utilisation strategies to ensure limited…

Patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) have disproportionately lower rates of cancer screening than English-proficient patients. Given the multifactorial nature of screening disparities, strategies to improve screening rates must address barriers within and outside of the clinic setting. The objectives of this…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in nephrology, including rehabilitation planning for patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). However, most AI systems are predominantly trained on English-language data, which may influence the quality and clinical relevance of the generated recommendations.To evalu…

: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being evaluated for clinically relevant diagnostic tasks, yet their performance may vary across languages. We aimed to determine whether input language influences LLM diagnostic reasoning in vignette-based clinical tasks and to inform multilingual predeployment evaluation…

BACKGROUND: This study evaluates the performance of ChatGPT-4o on practice questions from the U.S. Integrated National Board Dental Examination (INBDE) and the Chinese Dental Licensing Examination to assess its potential and limitations in a high-stakes dental context. METHODS: ChatGPT-4o and human participants (ten d…

BACKGROUND: Because the CVSS17 was originally developed in Spanish, the objective of this study was to adapt it linguistically and culturally into English while evaluating its psychometric properties. METHODS: After translating and adapting the CVSS17 to English, 441 participants (aged 18 to 65 years) from a general p…

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has further exposed inequities in our society, demonstrated by disproportionate COVID-19 infection rate and mortality in communities of color and low-income communities. One key area of inequity that has yet to be explored is disparities based on preferred language. METHODS: We conduc…

OBJECTIVES: Globalization and migration are increasing the demand for reports in different languages. We aimed to examine if structured reports created by non-German-speaking radiologists with multilingual templates show significant differences in quality to structured reports and free-text reports by German native spe…

BACKGROUND: The Internet is one of the most popular resources for people to obtain medical information; however, only a limited number of studies have reported the quality of the available health information related to oral mucosal diseases. The present study aimed to evaluate the quality of information on websites for…

The Life Orientation Test-Revised (LOT-R) is a widely used measure of optimism and pessimism, with three positively worded and three negatively worded content items. This study examined the structural validity and invariance, internal consistency reliability, and convergent and divergent validity of the English and Spa…

BACKGROUND: Significant health disparities exist between limited English proficient and English-proficient patients. Little is known about the impact of language services on chronic disease outcomes such as for diabetes. METHODS/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: To determine whether the amount and type of language services received…