Objectives: Research indicates that the increasing population of over 25 million people in
the United States who have limited English proficiency experience differences in decision …

Purpose To understand the healthcare team's perceptions of the negative consequences of
suboptimal communication and their recommendations to improve communication with …

Objective To determine whether code status, advance directives, and decisions to limit life
support were different for patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) in the intensive care …

Objective: Family communication is important for delivering high quality end-of-life care in
the intensive care unit, yet little research has been conducted to describe and evaluate …

Words are one of the primary ways we express and explain ourselves to our patients,
patients' families, and our colleagues in the ICU. The words we choose are important to …

Objectives To conduct comparative cost analysis of hospital care for critically ill patients with
Limited English Proficiency (LEP) versus patients with English proficiency (controls) …

Communication skills are paramount to the successful and humane practice of critical care
medicine. By definition, patients admitted to the critical care unit have a substantial …

Background Linguistic and cultural diversity within the United States are growing. Between
1980 and 2019, the number of individuals over 5 years of age who speak a language other …

Objectives: There is substantial variation in use of life sustaining technologies in patients
near the end of life but little is known about variation in physicians' initial ICU admission and …

A growing percentage of critically ill patients and their families in the United States speak
limited English. We present the case of a palliative care consult conducted across language …