Transitions from hospital to community care: the role of patient–provider language concordance

Table 4 Correlates of quality transitional care as measured by the CTM-15 (multiple linear regressions)

	B	S.E	β
Language concordance between patient and physician/nurse	7.48	2.94	0.24*
Native language (Ref: Hebrew)
Arabic	14.25	3.01	0.47***
Russian	9.21	2.91	0.30**
Quality of discharge briefing index	6.75	1.32	0.45***
General discharge explanations index	0.77	0.36	0.16*
PCP review of discharge recommendations index	1.09	0.54	0.16*
SF12v2: PCS	0.26	0.10	0.20*

Variables entered into the stepwise regression model but not retained: Mental health status.
PCP: Primary Care Physician.
*p < 0.05; **p < 0. 01; ***p < 0. 001.

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