Clinical perspectives and strategies for confronting disparities in social determinants of health for Hispanic bilinguals with aphasia.
Michael Scimeca, Fatemeh Abdollahi, Claudia Peñaloza, Swathi Kiran
PMID 35688011WHAT IT FOUND
This paper outlines barriers to stroke care for Hispanic bilinguals with aphasia, including poverty, limited English proficiency, and digital divides.
It describes strategies like teletherapy and community recruitment used in an ongoing trial, but reports no new patient outcomes or treatment effects.
What this paper is
This is a narrative review and clinical perspective piece describing barriers to care for Hispanic bilinguals with aphasia and strategies used in an ongoing trial. It reports no new patient outcomes, treatment effects, or comparative data, so there is no finding here to change clinical practice on.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read the described recruitment and teletherapy strategies as evidence of efficacy. The paper reports no new patient outcomes or trial results, only the methods used to enroll participants in an ongoing study.