Participants in our study indicated that physicians are most likely to follow the 'path of least resistance' for securing interpretation services, therefore implementation and testing of innovative, user-friendly telephone interpretation services should be a focus for future research.
If the respondent was unable to communicate in one of these languages, a telephone interpretation service was contacted for assistance.
It is possible that telephone interpretation may be able to offset the difficulties of scheduling in-person interpretation.
Telephone interpretation services continue to evolve and become more user-friendly; however other supports are still needed to make it easier for physicians to 'get help' when they need it.
If the respondent was unable to communicate in one of these languages, assistance from a telephone interpretation service was sought.
Hospital staff members also used a 24-hour telephone-interpretation service about 4,000 times in the past year.
Keep change for telephone.
Different Reasons for Telephone Interviews.
Figure 8 Top 10 sense score distribution of two sounds for "telephone".Sound: telephone, ring pick upSound: telephone, lift handle dial.
This article introduces a decision-tree model for telephone contacts based upon the DBT target hierarchy for telephone coaching.
