January 15, 2024
CHAMP faculty and staff Pamela Torresday, Jacob Chen, and Hector Rodriguez to assess if more time spent with interpreters supports clinician-patient communication for patients with limited English proficiency (LEP), especially when interpreter support before and after clinical encounters is considered. They assessed whether more time spent with interpreters is associated with better patient-reported experiences of clinician-patient communication and interpreter support among patients with LEP. They found that a longer duration of time spent with an interpreter was associated with better clinician-patient communication for patients with LEP when time spent with an interpreter before and after the clinician encounter was considered.