Impact of patient-family physician language concordance on healthcare utilisation and mortality: a retrospective cohort study of home care recipients in Ontario, Canada.

A study of Spanish-speaking patients with asthma found that patients who received language-concordant care had slightly fewer Emergency Department (ED) visits when compared with patients who received language-discordant care, although this difference did not reach statistical significance. 11 Another study of patients with diabetes (who primarily spoke Haitian Creole, Portuguese and Spanish) found that patients were less likely to have diabetes-related ED visits when all of their primary care visits were with physicians who spoke their language. 17 Lastly, a recent study of patients

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