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New commission on health-care disparities lauded by American College of Physicians

Date:2/29/2008

ACP is also working to reduce barriers created by limited language proficiency. Fifty-two million people, 19.4 percent of the U.S. population, speak a language other than English at home. Of these, 44.6 percent speak English less than very well. Estimates of the number of people with Limited English Proficiency (LEP) range from 11 million to 21 million people. To determine whether internal medicine practices of ACP members provide language services and to better ensure effective communication for LEP patients, the College conducted a survey of its members during late 2006.

The survey findings and interpretations resulted in a 2007 College position paper, Language Services for Patients with Limited English Proficiency: Results of a National Survey of Internal Medicine Physicians http://www.acponline.org/ppvl/policies/e001183.pdf

Also in the last year, the ACP Foundation recognized in its Rx Container Label White Paper http://foundation.acponline.org/files/medlabel/acpfwhitepaper.pdf that patients with health literacy challenges and limited English proficiency are more likely to have an adverse drug effect.

And ACP has scheduled a session for its upcoming annual meeting, IM 2008, entitled Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care: Lessons for Clinical Practice.

Last December, an early-released article, Achieving a High Performance Health Care System with Universal Access: What the United States Can Learn From Other Countries http://www.annals.org/cgi/reprint/0000605-200801010-00196v1.pdf , from ACPs flagship publication, Annals of Internal Medicine, examined Equity by saying: A well-functioning system would have minimal differences among groups in terms of access to and quality of health care services
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