Association of Limited English Proficiency with Emergency Department Irregular Departures and Return Visits: A Cross-sectional Cohort Study in the Upper Midwest Between January 2018 and December 2021.
Sarah M BowerRonna L CampbellAidan F MullanHeather A HeatonThomas G LimVenkatesh R BellamkondaIsabella M LichenDerick D JonesPublished in: Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (2023)
After multivariable adjustment, we did not find an increased frequency of irregular ED departures, 72-hour or 7-day returns among patients with LEP compared with people proficient in English. However, we did find that higher proportions of patients with LEP were admitted to the hospital at the time of the return ED visit.