Access to Language Interpretation Services and its Impact on Clinical and Patient Outcomes: A Scopin

The territory was the subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between the Iroquois Confederacy and Confederacy of the Ojibwe and allied nations to peaceably share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes. [...] ESP (English Speaking Patients) Patients comfortable speaking English/choose to speak English in health care settings Length of Stay Time spent in the hospital or in health care settings from intake to discharge Length of Appointment Time spent during an appointment with a health care provider from the beginning to the end of the appointment Clinical Outcomes For the purposes of this scoping revie. [...] In our scoping review, we found evidence suggesting that the frequency of interpreted health care encounters as well as the consistency of access to language interpretation services seem to be a contributing factor to clinical and patient outcomes.37 More research is required to better establish the relationship between frequency of interpretation services and patient outcomes. [...] Finally, the most definitive evidence that examined the impact of language interpretation services on patient outcomes was related to the frequency of errors of clinical significance.42,44,45 Trained interpreters were less likely to have clinically significant errors in comparison to untrained interpreters or encounters with no interpreters. [...] Finally, the most definitive evidence that examined the impact of language interpretation services on patient outcomes was related to the frequency of errors of clinical significance.42,44,45 Trained interpreters were less likely to have clinically significant errors in comparison to untrained interpreters or encounters with no interpreters.