Background: Patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) comprise 19% of the adult population of California (1). Communication barriers between providers and patients with LEP contribute to health disparities and associate with increased adverse events (2,3). Working with professional interpreters associates with decreased hospital length-of-stay and readmission rates (4). However, few providers receive formal training on [...]

Background: The existing literature suggests there is no significant difference in risk adjusted inpatient mortality between patients whose preferred language is English and those who preferred a non-English language.1 However, these studies typically exclude patients with missing language data from analysis. Purpose: In our health system, missing language data is specified in the electronic health [...]