Objectives To understand healthcare team perceptions of the role of professional
interpreters and interpretation modalities during end of life and critical illness discussions …

Rationale Many conferences in the ICU occur with the families of patients with limited
English proficiency, requiring a medical interpreter. Despite the importance of medical …

Background: Healthcare providers increasingly care for patients with Limited English
Proficiency (LEP). There is limited research evaluating healthcare provider utilization …

Objective: Family communication is important for delivering high quality end-of-life care in
the intensive care unit, yet little research has been conducted to describe and evaluate …

Purpose To understand the healthcare team's perceptions of the negative consequences of
suboptimal communication and their recommendations to improve communication with …

Abstract Background Patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) experience worse
outcomes compared with native English speakers. Communication errors are partly …

BACKGROUND: Numerous articles have detailed how the presence of an interpreter leads
to less satisfactory communication with physicians; few have studied how actual …

OBJECTIVE: To describe the importance of teaching clinicians when and how to overcome
language barriers in clinical practice, provide an example of a curriculum for teaching on this …

summary In healthcare, the accuracy of interpretation is the most critical component of safe
and effective communication between providers and patients in medical settings …

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND Professional interpreter use improves the quality of care for
patients with limited English proficiency (LEP), but little is known about interpreter use in the …