For patients with limited English proficiency (LEP), errors in medical interpretation are common--especially when the interpreter is a family member or other untrained person, reports a new study. For ...

Seventy percent of pediatricians rely on patients' family members rather than interpreters to provide language services, according to a study by Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the Baltimore ...

Researchers at Linköping University studied the effect of professional interpreters for the participation of foreign-born patients in heart attack rehabilitation. After a heart attack, foreign-born ...

After a heart attack, foreign-born people are less likely to attend a relapse-preventing Heart School than native-born patients. But with access to a professional interpreter, participation increases.