ABSTRACT Take-Away Points: 1. Geriatric palliative care requires integrating the disciplines
of hospital medicine and palliative care in pursuit of delivering comprehensive, whole …

Objectives Inpatients with language barriers and complex medical needs suffer disparities in
quality of care, safety, and health outcomes. Although in-person interpreters are particularly …

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

As cellular therapies gradually become the mainstay of treatment for several nonmalignant
diseases, there appears to be varied accessibility to these therapies globally. Despite …

Communication regarding serious illness is challenging in most circumstances. Patients with
Limited English Proficiency (LEP) have unique language and cultural needs that often …

Palliative care aims to improve the quality of life and relieve the suffering of patients with
serious illness through a multidisciplinary approach attending to the physical, psychosocial …

The quality of care provided to pa-tients with limited English-language proficiency (LEP) is
significantly affected by the appropriate use of interpreters. 1, 2 No formal curriculum on the …

Effective communication is the corner-stone of the interactions among the patient, the
physician, and the attendant health care system, especially so when the patient faces end-of …

Palliative care aims to improve the quality of life and relieve the suffering of patients with
serious illness through a multidisciplinary approach attending to the physical, psychosocial …