Spanish Medical Interpreters' Management of Challenges in End of Life Discussions.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Professional medical interpreters facilitate patient understanding of illness, prognosis, and treatment options. Facilitating end of life discussions can be challenging. Our objective was to better understand the challenges professional medical interpreters face and how they affect the accuracy of provider-patient communication during discussions of end of life.

Methods

We conducted semi-structured interviews with professional Spanish medical interpreters. We asked about their experiences interpreting end of life discussions, including questions about values, professional and emotional challenges interpreting these conversations, and how those challenges might impact accuracy. We used a grounded theory, constant comparative method to analyze the data. Participants

SUBMITTER: Rhodes MG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8217083 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature