Patient-provider language concordance more than preferred language accounts for medication adherence differences among LEP patients

Narrative synthesis #

The authors frame this as the study's central finding: differences attributed to preferred language largely reflected whether the encounter was language-concordant (via a concordant provider or interpreter).

"After adjustment and stratification for greater and lesser language concordant patient visit experience, it was found that language-spoken plays an important role in the clinical encounter." (Kahler, 2022, p. 31)