Background: Emerging research demonstrates telehealth disparities for patients who communicate in languages other than English. A better understanding of pediatric telehealth use with families who communicate in languages other than English is needed to inform interventions to promote telehealth equity.
Methods: We conducted a mixed methods study of telehealth care in a children's hospital health system using electronic health record data for outpatient video telehealth encounters from April 2020 to July 2021 and qualitative interviews with clinical staff and Spanish-speaking parents of telehealth patients.
Results: The 16-month study period included 102,387 telehealth encounters; 5% of which were encounters in languages other than English. 83% of languages other than English encounters were with patients/families with a preferred healthcare language of Spanish. 11% of providers conducted ≥10 languages other than English telehealth encounters. This subset of providers conducted 71% of all languages other than English encounters. We conducted 25 interviews with clinical staff (n=13) and parents (n=12). Common themes identified across interviews were: (I) technology barriers affect access to and quality of telehealth; (II) clinical staff and parents are uncertain about the future role of telehealth for patients/families who communicate in languages other than English; (III) the well-known impact of language barriers on in-person healthcare access and quality for patients who communicate in languages other than English is also evident in telehealth.
Conclusions: Patients who communicate in languages other than English were underrepresented among telehealth encounters and encounters were concentrated among few providers. Promoting equitable telehealth care requires investment to address technology barriers, increase the readiness of providers and clinics to provide telehealth care in languages other than English, and continued attention to reducing the healthcare impact of language barriers.
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