{"id":228493,"date":"2026-08-27T11:42:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T16:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/santeenfrancais.com\/?p=228493"},"modified":"2026-08-27T11:42:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T16:42:45","slug":"patient-physician-language-concordance-and-long-term-mortality-a-retrospective-cohort-study-of-canadians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/santeenfrancais.com\/en\/2026\/08\/27\/patient-physician-language-concordance-and-long-term-mortality-a-retrospective-cohort-study-of-canadians\/","title":{"rendered":"Patient\u2013physician language concordance and long-term mortality: a retrospective cohort study of Canadians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Available in English only, this study examines patient\u2013physician language concordance and long-term mortality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Communication between patients and their physicians plays an essential role in quality of care. Against a backdrop of growing linguistic diversity in Canada, this study examines whether receiving care in one\u2019s primary language is associated with better long-term survival. Using data from more than 50,000&nbsp;Canadians, the authors assessed the effect of patient\u2013physician language concordance on the risk of death, particularly among francophone, allophone and Indigenous linguistic minorities. <strong>Patients who receive medical care in their primary language appear to have a better chance of long-term survival than those who encounter language barriers in their interactions with their physician.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Researchers: Michael Reaume, Benjamin Holahan, Mathieu N. Labossi\u00e8re, Elaine Kilabuk, Stephanie Van Haute, Joel Nkosi, Harminder Singh, Denis Prud\u2019homme, Sathya Karunananthan, Sharon Johnston, Lisa M. Lix<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-fe48e5de wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/santeenfrancais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Etude-par-Michael-Reaume_Patient-physician-language-concordance-and-long-term-mortality.pdf\">View the study in English<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/santeenfrancais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Micheal-Reaume.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Available in English only, this study examines patient\u2013physician language concordance and long-term mortality. Communication between patients and their physicians plays an essential role in quality of care. Against a backdrop of growing linguistic diversity in Canada, this study examines whether receiving care in one\u2019s primary language is associated with better long-term survival. Using data from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-others","category-studies-and-documents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/santeenfrancais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/santeenfrancais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/santeenfrancais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santeenfrancais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santeenfrancais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/santeenfrancais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228495,"href":"https:\/\/santeenfrancais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228493\/revisions\/228495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/santeenfrancais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santeenfrancais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santeenfrancais.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}