BACKGROUND Patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) experience poorer quality care and more adverse events in hospital. Consequently, there is interest in understanding the role of professional medical interpreters in efforts to improve patient safety. OBJECTIVE To describe the views of professional medical interpreters on their role in the delivery of safe patient care. DESIGN Quali...

Data we collect and use in organisation management studies look like ‘cold cases’. We want to offer more conversations, interpretations, arguments even disputes. The ‘Interpreters’ is a nexus where academics invite colleagues friends analyse discuss freely an argument, raw data, cases qualitative materials.

Recent studies have shown fewer errors and less likelihood of clinical consequences when limited English proficient patients have access to trained professional interpreters. In this study, the authors compare interpreter errors and their potential clinical consequences in hospital pediatric encounters using professional interpreters versus ad hoc interpreters versus no interpreters. The study ...

Findings are presented from a narrative study that examined the use of interpreters in psychotherapy with refugees. Fifteen therapists and 15 interpreters were interviewed at 14 refugee mental health treatment centers in the United States. Core findings concerned the impact of interpreters on the therapeutic alliance, the complex emotional reactions that may arise within the therapy triad, the ...

The goal of achieving powerful problem solving capabilities leads to the “advice taker” form of program and the associated problem of control. This proposal outlines an approach to this problem based on the construction of problem solvers with advanced self-knowledge and introspection capabilities. 1 The Problem of Control Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead lif...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To compare interpreter errors and their potential consequences in encounters with professional versus ad hoc versus no interpreters. METHODS This was a cross-sectional error analysis of audiotaped emergency department (ED) visits during 30 months in the 2 largest pediatric EDs in Massachusetts. Participants were Spanish-speaking limited-English-proficient patients, caregivers,...

BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT New Zealand is becoming more ethnically diverse, with more limited English proficiency (LEP) people. Consequently there are more primary care consultations where patients have insufficient English to communicate adequately. Because effective communication is essential for good care, interpreters are needed in such cases. ASSESSMENT OF PROBLEM The literature on the use o...

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