A pilot study of language and culture mediation in medical interpreting at border crossing points in Moscow, Russia [PDF]
Heliyon, 2019 The paper analyzes provision of medical interpreting services at border crossing points in the Russian Federation. It is argued in the article that medical interpreting at border crossing points should be viewed as linguacultural mediation in the context
Larisa Lutskovskaia +4 more
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Perspectives of Healthcare Providers towards Remote Medical Interpreting Services in Japan. [PDF]
Healthcare (Basel), 2022 Language support is necessary for effective healthcare as language obstacles have a negative impact on patient outcomes. Medical facilities dealing with novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) were forced to restrict the number of healthcare professionals ...
Saeki S +3 more
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Challenges and the potential of promoting remote medical interpreting during COVID-19. [PDF]
Glob Health Med, 2022 Language barriers negatively affect patient outcomes, and linguistic assistance is essential for adequate healthcare. The adoption of face-to-face medical interpretating is believed to have been rendered more challenging by the implementation of hospital
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Medical Interpreting Services for Refugees in Canada: Current State of Practice and Considerations in Promoting this Essential Human Right for All. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public HealthLanguage barriers, specifically among refugees, pose significant challenges to delivering quality healthcare in Canada. While the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the emergence and development of innovative alternatives such as telephone-based and video ...
Arya AN +6 more
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Medical interpreting and the law in the European Union. [PDF]
European Journal of Health Law, 2012 In 2011, the Danish government announced that from June that year it would no longer cover the costs of medical interpreters for patients who had been living in Denmark for more than seven years.
M. Phelan
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Ethical Risks and Structural Implications of AI-Mediated Medical Interpreting [PDF]
JMIR AIArtificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used to support medical interpreting and public health communication, yet current systems introduce serious risks to accuracy, confidentiality, and equity, particularly for speakers of low-resource languages ...
Alexandra Lopez Vera
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INTERPRETing to increase access to PSYcho-oncology care (INTERPRET-PSY) for cancer patients with limited English proficiency: study protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial [PDF]
Pilot and Feasibility StudiesBackground People with cancer who have limited English proficiency (LEP) are at high risk for poor mental health outcomes in survivorship as they face cultural, linguistic, and mobility-related barriers to accessing psychosocial care.
Florence Lui +11 more
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Interpreting and Correcting Medical Image Classification with PIP-Net [PDF]
ECAI Workshops, 2023 Part-prototype models are explainable-by-design image classifiers, and a promising alternative to black box AI. This paper explores the applicability and potential of interpretable machine learning, in particular PIP-Net, for automated diagnosis support ...
Meike Nauta +5 more
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A Better Medical Interpreting Service
International Journal of Translation, Interpretation, and Applied Linguistics, 2021 Medical interpreting has become a new research focus in recent decades, but few studies have discussed the role of interpreter in combination with strategies.
Jifei Zhang, Fei Wang
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What language is your doctor speaking? Facing the problems of translating medical documents into English [PDF]
Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo, 2013 What is translation - a craft, an art, a profession or a job? Although one of the oldest human activities, translation has not still been fully defined, and it is still young in terms of an academic discipline. The paper defines the difference between
Mićović Dragoslava
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