Migration patterns have rapidly changed in Australia and elsewhere, which have contributed
to increasingly culturally and linguistically diverse societies. This requires healthcare sectors …

Objective Effective communication is essential to providing high-quality healthcare. For
linguistically diverse patients, communication remains a barrier to receiving equitable …

Background and objective Studies conflict about whether language discordance increases
rates of hospital readmissions or emergency department (ED) revisits for adult and …

Aims and objectives To trial three mobile translation apps in the healthcare setting to
address language barriers in everyday care between healthcare staff and older people with …

This paper reports on interprofessional education (IPE), a teaching and learning strategy
that is widely used in healthcare training. IPE is structured and usually situation-based …

This chapter examines nine themes about community translation and interpreting (CTI) in
Australia. It commences with a historical overview of interlingual transfer, followed by a …

Background While most studies on burn outcomes have focused on adults, it is unclear if the
same socioeconomic and environmental inequalities affect paediatric patients. This study …

Introduction There are significant challenges and a lack of data related to culturally and
linguistically diverse (CALD) cancer patients. We compared patient characteristics, treatment …

Aim To compare access to the initial management and overall survival with colorectal cancer
for limited English proficient (LEP) patients compared with patients from an English …

The provision of interpreting services for communities whose first language is not English
has been of paramount importance in Australia for the last fifty years, especially in …