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How Do you Assure Your Interpreters Skills?

February 1, 2008 | Story

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Memphis Medical Center (the MED) Improves Language Services for Spanish-Speaking Patients Through RWJF's Hablamos Juntos Program

October 15, 2007 | Program Result Report

From 2002 to 2006, the Regional Medical Center at Memphis, known as the MED, in Memphis, Tenn., improved and expanded language services for Spanish-speaking patients throughout the organization.

The Impact of Interpreters on Parents' Experiences with Ambulatory Care for Their Children

February 1, 2006 | Journal Article

Recommended Reading Getting By: Underuse of Interpreters by Resident Physicians How Do you Assure Your Interpreters Skills?  Initial and Ongoing Evaluation of Interpreters The current investigation focused on individuals seeking health care who had ...

Item and Scale Differential Functioning of the Mini-Mental State Exam Assessed Using the Differential Item and Test Functioning (DFIT) Framework

November 1, 2006 | Journal Article

Survey items or multiple-item scales on statistical analyses can produce misleading results when the probability of an individual endorsing an item or category is influenced by an individual's membership in a particular group. In the present study t ...

Temple University Health System in Philadelphia Improves Language Services for Spanish-Speaking Patients Through RWJF's Hablamos Juntos Program

October 16, 2007 | Program Result Report

Temple University Health System in Philadelphia developed and promoted language services for Spanish-speaking patients in all of the system's hospitals and recruited, trained and credentialed six health care interpreters.

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