Limited English proficiency is associated with access barriers to isotretinoin for acne

Arch Dermatol Res. 2024 Jul 11;316(7):464. doi: 10.1007/s00403-024-03208-5.

James Choe^#¹, Allison Yan^#¹, Alexandra Charrow¹, Arash Mostaghimi¹, Stephen Shiboski², Aileen Y Chang^#^{3

4}, John S Barbieri^#^{5

6}

¹ Department of Dermatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 41 Avenue Louis Pasteur, 317A, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
² Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, USA.
³ Department of Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, USA.
⁴ Department of Dermatology, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, San Francisco, CA, USA.
⁵ Department of Dermatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 41 Avenue Louis Pasteur, 317A, Boston, MA, 02115, USA. [email protected].
⁶ JAMA Dermatology, San Francisco, CA, USA. [email protected].

^# Contributed equally.

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Keywords: Access to care; Acne; Health disparities; Isotretinoin; Language barriers; Limited English proficiency; Medicaid.

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