Table 4 Rate of harmful hospitalization, by patient linguistic group and hospital language*
Hospital Language | Patient Linguistic Group | P value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Anglophone (N = 83,515) | Francophone (N = 16,873) | Allophone (N = 6491) | ||
Overall Harmful Hospitalizations | 5255 (6.29%) | 1038 (6.15%) | 495 (7.63%) | < 0.001 |
Harmful Hospitalizations by Hospital Language | ||||
English-speaking (N = 147) | 3318 (5.96%) | 309 (6.75%) | 243 (6.50%) | 0.048 |
Bilingual (N = 12) | 1937 (6.96%) | 729 (5.93%) | 252 (9.16%) | < 0.001 |
P value† | < 0.001 | 0.048 | < 0.001 | |