Eliaz Amity, Blair Alden H, Chen Yea-Hung, Fernandez Alicia, Ernst Alexandra, Mirjahangir Joy, Celentano Jessica, Sachdev Darpun, Enanoria Wayne, Reid Michael J A
School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
Institute for Global Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
Open Forum Infect Dis. 2021 Dec 23;9(1):ofab612. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofab612. eCollection 2022 Jan.
We evaluated the impact of language concordance-clinician or public health worker fluency in a patient's primary language-on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) contact tracing outcomes among 2668 Spanish-speaking adults in San Francisco. Language concordance was associated with 20% greater odds of COVID-19 testing and 53% greater odds of support service referrals.
我们评估了语言一致性——临床医生或公共卫生工作者对患者母语的流利程度——对旧金山2668名讲西班牙语成年人的2019冠状病毒病(COVID-19)接触者追踪结果的影响。语言一致性与COVID-19检测几率高出20%以及支持服务转介几率高出53%相关。