Evaluating the Impact of Language Concordance on Coronavirus Disease 2019 Contact Tracing Outcomes Among Spanish-Speaking Adults in San Francisco Between June and November 2020

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...

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Autores principales: Eliaz, Amity, Blair, Alden H, Chen, Yea-Hung, Fernandez, Alicia, Ernst, Alexandra, Mirjahangir, Joy, Celentano, Jessica, Sachdev, Darpun, Enanoria, Wayne, Reid, Michael J A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8717891/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34993261
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofab612
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author Eliaz, Amity
Blair, Alden H
Chen, Yea-Hung
Fernandez, Alicia
Ernst, Alexandra
Mirjahangir, Joy
Celentano, Jessica
Sachdev, Darpun
Enanoria, Wayne
Reid, Michael J A
author_facet Eliaz, Amity
Blair, Alden H
Chen, Yea-Hung
Fernandez, Alicia
Ernst, Alexandra
Mirjahangir, Joy
Celentano, Jessica
Sachdev, Darpun
Enanoria, Wayne
Reid, Michael J A
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-87178912022-01-05 Evaluating the Impact of Language Concordance on Coronavirus Disease 2019 Contact Tracing Outcomes Among Spanish-Speaking Adults in San Francisco Between June and November 2020 Eliaz, Amity Blair, Alden H Chen, Yea-Hung Fernandez, Alicia Ernst, Alexandra Mirjahangir, Joy Celentano, Jessica Sachdev, Darpun Enanoria, Wayne Reid, Michael J A Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Report 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. Oxford University Press 2021-12-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8717891/ /pubmed/34993261 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofab612 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
spellingShingle Brief Report
Eliaz, Amity
Blair, Alden H
Chen, Yea-Hung
Fernandez, Alicia
Ernst, Alexandra
Mirjahangir, Joy
Celentano, Jessica
Sachdev, Darpun
Enanoria, Wayne
Reid, Michael J A
Evaluating the Impact of Language Concordance on Coronavirus Disease 2019 Contact Tracing Outcomes Among Spanish-Speaking Adults in San Francisco Between June and November 2020
title Evaluating the Impact of Language Concordance on Coronavirus Disease 2019 Contact Tracing Outcomes Among Spanish-Speaking Adults in San Francisco Between June and November 2020
title_full Evaluating the Impact of Language Concordance on Coronavirus Disease 2019 Contact Tracing Outcomes Among Spanish-Speaking Adults in San Francisco Between June and November 2020
title_fullStr Evaluating the Impact of Language Concordance on Coronavirus Disease 2019 Contact Tracing Outcomes Among Spanish-Speaking Adults in San Francisco Between June and November 2020
title_full_unstemmed Evaluating the Impact of Language Concordance on Coronavirus Disease 2019 Contact Tracing Outcomes Among Spanish-Speaking Adults in San Francisco Between June and November 2020
title_short Evaluating the Impact of Language Concordance on Coronavirus Disease 2019 Contact Tracing Outcomes Among Spanish-Speaking Adults in San Francisco Between June and November 2020
title_sort evaluating the impact of language concordance on coronavirus disease 2019 contact tracing outcomes among spanish-speaking adults in san francisco between june and november 2020
topic Brief Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8717891/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34993261
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofab612
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