Journal of general internal medicine
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Multicenter Study
Acute myocardial infarction length of stay and hospital mortality are not associated with language preference.
Language barriers between patients and providers may influence the process and quality of care. ⋯ Language preference is not associated with AMI mortality, and the small increase in length of stay associated with non-English preference is accounted for by hospital level factors. Our results suggest that system level differences are important to consider in studies of the effect of language barriers in the health care setting.