While professionally trained medical interpreters remain the criterion standard for
interpretation in clinical practice, 1 they are often not available in community-based …

With the development of electronic personal health records, more patients are gaining
access to their own medical records. However, comprehension of medical record content …

BACKGROUND: Language barriers may prevent clinicians from tailoring patient educational
material to the needs of individuals with limited English proficiency. Online translation tools …

P rovision of linguistically appropriate care remains a challenge to achieving health equity.
Language barriers impact 25.6 million limited English proficient (LEP) individuals in the …

Despite a growing number of US citizens who do not speak English fluently, little literature
attends to issues of accurate translation of medical documents. We conducted a systematic …

Before answering the question posed in the title, a preliminary issue has to be put forward
and dealt with: who is likely to become a competent medical translator? By and large …

Most people who work in the medical community in the United States have encountered the
need to have written materials available in other languages to serve Limited English …

Objective Accurate, understandable public health information is important for ensuring the
health of the nation. The large portion of the US population with Limited English Proficiency …

Since there always will be more medical translations than can be handled by the relatively
few physicians who translate, medical translation will perforce be done by non-physicians …

Background Accessing professional medical interpreters for brief, low risk exchanges can be
challenging. Machine translation (MT) for verbal communication has the potential to be a …