Strategies to Increase Professional Interpreting in Clinical Settings: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Clinicians frequently communicate without professional interpreters when caring for patients who use languages other than English for medical care, despite evidence that such partnering improves health outcomes.

Objective

To systematically review the evidence for targeted behavior change strategies to increase professional interpreting in medical settings.

Evidence review

The CINAHL, Embase, PubMed, Ovid MEDLINE, and Web of Science databases were searched on July 28, 2023, and September 2, 2024, for English-language peer-reviewed articles assessing all interventional and observational studies that included outcomes related to professional interpreting in medical settings. Two reviewers conducted each screening stage. The study design, implementation strateg

SUBMITTER: Gutman CK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12272290 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature