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Language Barriers in Pediatric Healthcare Delivery
Priority Setting Partnership
We aim to improve care for children, youth, and families who face language barriers by working together to identify key research questions.
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What is a Priority Setting Partnership?
Priority Setting Partnerships (PSPs) were created by the James Lind Alliance, a non-profit organization founded in 2004.
PSPs bring patients, clinicians, and researchers together to identify and rank the most important unanswered questions about health. These questions help show what we still need to learn through research. This process helps ensure that the people who fund health research know what matters most to patients, caregivers, and clinicians.
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Our Objectives
Work with patients, carers, and clinicians
We work with patients, carers, and clinicians to identify uncertainties about language barriers in healthcare delivery for children, youth and families
Share with the public
We will publicise our list of top 10 research priorities so everyone can benefit.
Develop and evaluate a multilingual research process
We will test a research process that uses real-time interpretation and translation to help patients and families who face language barriers take part in research. We aim to create practical guidance that researchers across Canada can use to make research more inclusive.
Agree on a prioritised list of uncertainties
We agree by consensus on a prioritised list of those uncertainties for research.
Who We Want to Hear From
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This project looks at how language barriers affect healthcare for kids and families in Canada. We focus on people who speak languages other than English or French. We want to know how things like translation services, clinic staff, and hospital rules impact health.
This group includes:
- Young people (ages 12 to 25) and parents of children under 17 who have trouble getting care because of language.
- Leaders from local groups that help newcomers and immigrants navigate the healthcare system.
- Doctors, nurses, and other health workers who treat children facing language challenges.
Our goal is to hear from everyone involved so we can figure out what research is most needed to make healthcare better for families across the country. We want to ensure that every child gets clear information and good care, regardless of what language they speak at home.