Background Culturally competent health care service delivery can improve health outcomes,
increasing the efficiency of clinical staff, and greater patient satisfaction. We aimed to …

Background Current evidence highlights that language discordant clinical encounters
seriously compromise patient quality of care and health outcomes. We aimed to characterise …

Aims and objectives To understand the attitudes and perceptions of older people with limited
English proficiency (LEP) and healthcare workers to using mobile translation technology for …

ABSTRACT Background Patients with limited English proficiency rely on communication
supports to access and engage with healthcare. This commonly involves professional …

Linguistic and ethnic diversity is a feature of patient profiles at almost all public healthcare
facilities in urban areas in Australia. Patients with limited proficiency in the socially dominant …

Interprofessional collaboration between clinicians, interpreters, and translators is crucial to
providing care for consumers with limited English proficiency. Interprofessional training for …

Chinese and English are the world's largest languages, and the number of interpreter-
mediated interactions involving Chinese and English speakers has increased exponentially …

Health translation has gotten considerable attention recently because language diversity in
multilingual societies often leads to language barriers. The present study evaluates the …

Purpose Professional interpreters can improve healthcare quality and outcomes when there
is language discordance between patients and health care providers. Multidisciplinary …

This chapter introduces and discusses translanguaging as a practical theory of language in
relation to medical language education and multilingual healthcare encounters in …