BreenaRachelTairaMDMPH

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

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Office
Olive View UCLA Medical Center
14445 Olive View DR Dept of Emergency Medicine North
Sylmar, CA 91342
Phone+1 747-210-3107

Fax+1 818-364-4298

Stony Brook Medicine/University HospitalResidency, Emergency Medicine, 2009 - 2012
Stony Brook Medicine/University HospitalResidency, Surgery, 2005 - 2007
Stony Brook University Health Sciences Center School of MedicineClass of 2005

PubMed

42 citations
Hospital and Health System-Level Interventions to Improve Care for Limited English Proficiency Patients: A Systematic Review.
Breena R. Taira, Kenneth Kim, Nisha Mody
Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 2019-06-01
32 citations
A Pragmatic Assessment of Google Translate for Emergency Department Instructions.
Breena R. Taira, Vanessa Kreger, Aristides Orue, Lisa C. Diamond
Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2021-03-05
12 citations
Differences in test ordering between nurse practitioners and attending emergency physicians when acting as Provider in Triage.
Tomer Begaz, David Elashoff, Tristan Grogan, David A. Talan, Breena R. Taira
The American Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2017-04-14

Doctors Often Turn to Google Translate to Talk to Patients. They Want a Better OptionMarch 16th, 2022
Google Translate Still Isn’t Good Enough for Medical InstructionsMarch 9th, 2021
Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Puts Latino Patients’ Health at RiskOctober 30th, 2019
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