The Impact of Medical Interpreter Services on the Quality of Health Care: A Systematic Review
By G. Flores. Medical Care Research and Review, 2005
1,331 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Emergency Medicine, General Health Professions
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In Clinical Psychology
- Stefan Priebe
- M. Bogić
- H. Searight
- Barbara K. Searight
- A. Njoku
- Laurence J. Kirmayer
- Andrew G. Ryder
In Emergency Medicine
In General Health Professions
Citations in the corpus
- Promoting effective transitions of care at hospital discharge: a review of key issues for hospitalists. (2007, background): “In the event that physicians and hospital staff cannot fluently communicate in a patient’s language, it is essential to engage trained interpreters, not rely on rudimentary language skills, the patient’s family, or other ad hoc ways to communicate.(103) Because patients are unlikely to fully remembe”
- Common mental health problems in immigrants and refugees: general approach in primary care (2011, background): “, family friends, children, staff), improves communication substantially and helps reduce disparities in use of a range of medical services.(101,103) Professional interpreters can improve communication and increase disclosure of psychological symptoms among asylum seekers, and can be used to deliver”
- Working with foreign language interpreters: Recommendations for psychological practice. (2009, background): “Approximately 10 states pay for health care interpreters through Medicaid (Ku & Flores, 2005) with few private insurers covering language services.”
- Do professional interpreters improve clinical care for patients with limited English proficiency? A systematic review of the literature. (2007, background): “A recent general review of the literature concludes that the quality of medical care is improved by either use of professional interpreters or via direct provision of care by bilingual health care providers (Flores 2005).”
- Long-term mental health of war-refugees: a systematic literature review (2015, background): “Previous studies examining the issues related to the use of interpreters in medical settings indicated that communication errors may occur when eliciting information by such methods [77–79].”