A trial, randomly allocating interpreters [ 27] for language-incongruent ER encounters, found increased satisfaction with physicians' performance in parents who had access to hospital-trained interpreters compared to ad hoc interpretation by staff or relatives.
Although four states did include language support, for example, interpretation services, staff capacity and training, none of these contractual expectations were enforced, and there were no penalties for non-adherence.
Terms like "bite-size" and "chopped," which are key to defining what is safe for a person to eat, can be left open to interpretation by the staff at a given institution or group home.
However, the final interpretation by the staff radiologist, minutes to days later, sometimes reveals clinically important discrepancies from the initial resident interpretation and results in a revised interpretation that may alter patient management and outcome.
Our interpretation is that staff members may have lacked a language to express their reflections in ethical terms.
This facilitates considerably the results interpretation by medical staff not being familiar with this kind of data.
Interviews were conducted in Dutch when interviewees mastered this language, or with two-directional interpretation by project staff members in Sranan Tongo.
Several authors have reported good agreement between field staff interpretation of the test line strength and that of the reference laboratory [ 4, 22].
While neither of the tests can be performed by untrained staff, interpretation of results is considered easier for the Widal test compared to Tubex.
To facilitate interpretation, allied health staff were designated the reference group for computing ORs; only nurses had a significantly higher odds of infection compared with allied health staff (OR 6.1, 95% CI 1.4 26.0; p = 0.02).
