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- Title
Assessing dual-role staff-interpreter linguistic competency in an integrated healthcare system.
- Authors
Moreno, Maria R; Otero-Sabogal, Regina; Newman, Jeffrey
- Abstract
Interpreter services for medical care increase physician-patient communication and safety, yet a "formal certification" process to demonstrate interpreter competence does not exist. Testing and training is left to individual health care facilities nationwide. Bilingual staff are often used to interpret, without any assessment of their skills. Assessing interpreters' linguistic competence and setting standards for testing is a priority.
- Publication
Journal of general internal medicine, 2007, Vol 22 Suppl 2, p331
- ISSN
1525-1497
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11606-007-0344-8