Francophone Initiative Zone COFFRE

What are we doing?

To achieve its objectives, COFFRE offers the following services:

1. We provide one-on-one support as an advisory service for OSSU network members, other SPOR entities and those receiving CIHR funding on how to integrate language variables into your project.

2. We act as an intermediary, linking patient partners with research teams seeking to include French-speaking perspectives.

3. We can ensure that your results that include Ontario Francophones are available to a wider audience; this may include validating French-language training modules, data collection tools or frameworks, and also working with authors to develop evidence summaries using existing research documents.

Visit our resources page HERE to see our summaries of articles relevant to Francophonie!

Titles of the last summaries : 

• A comprehensive qualitative analysis of patient dialogue summarization using large language models applied to noisy, informal, non-English real-world data

• Artificial Intelligence as an Application of Language Barrier in a Simulated Healthcare Setting: A Proof-of-Concept Study 

• Effectiveness of interpreters and other strategies for mitigating language barriers: A systematic review 

• Evaluating utilization and satisfaction of a pilot video-interpretation service in the emergency department

• Improving Hospital Care for Patients Experiencing Communication Barriers Through Nurse-Endorsed Strategies 

• Language‑appropriate care: an overview for the busy emergency clinician 

• Language-Concordant Health Care: Implementation of a Bilingual Competency Program

• Nurses' Experiences of Working With Healthcare Interpreters When Caring for Patients With Limited Proficiency in the Primary Language: A Qualitative Systematic Review 

• Unraveling the link between language barriers and cancer risk 

• Suicide Attempts Among Adolescents With Limited English Proficiency in the United States: A National Study 

If you would like to have your articles published as Essentials on our website, contact us!

Email us a summary containing the key sections of our Essentials (purpose and context, key findings, interpretations & policy implications), with permission from the lead author.

Submissions will be reviewed, and we may include yours on the website.