Prohibiting Babel-A call for professional remote interpreting services in pre-operation anaesthesia information.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Language barriers within clinical settings pose a threat to patient safety. As a potential impediment to understanding, they hinder the process of obtaining informed consent and uptake of critical medical information. This study investigates the impact of the current use of interpreters, with a particular focus on of engaging laypersons as interpreters, rather than professional interpreters potentially affecting patient safety. A further objective is to explore the reliability of phone-based telemedicine in terms of the retention of important medical facts.

Methods

In three groups (N per group = 30), we compared how using lay or professional interpreters affected non-German speaking patients' subjectively perceived understanding (understood vs. not understood) a

SUBMITTER: Gerger G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11741601 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature