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
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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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Delivery of interpreting services in UK primary care by population needs: a multisite case study [PDF]
BMJ Public HealthIntroduction Interpreting services for patients with no/limited English proficiency are key in healthcare communication and quality of care; yet little evidence exists on interpreting service delivery.
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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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Challenges and the potential of promoting remote medical interpreting during COVID-19 [PDF]
Global Health & Medicine, 2022 Soichiro Saeki, Kaori Minamitani
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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]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public HealthNeil Arya, Ilene Hyman, Tim Holland
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The Virtues of Interpretable Medical AI
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2023 AbstractArtificial intelligence (AI) systems have demonstrated impressive performance across a variety of clinical tasks. However, notoriously, sometimes these systems are “black boxes.” The initial response in the literature was a demand for “explainable AI.” However, recently, several authors have suggested that making AI more explainable or ...
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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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Language of relief: medical interpreting within the scope of the refugee crisis response
Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica, 2020 One of the main challenges facing local authorities in the regions affected by the current refugee and migrant crisis is to properly deal with the healthcare dimension, both in terms of providing adequate healthcare to migrants and regarding public ...
Vedrana Čemerin, Marina Črnko
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Mindful practice with medical interpreters
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 IntroductionMedical interpreters experience emotional burdens from the complex demands at work. Because communication access is a social determinant of health, protecting and promoting the health of medical interpreters is critical for ensuring equitable access to care for language-minority patients. The purpose of this study was to pilot a condensed 8-
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