The experience of interpreter access and language discordant clinical encounters in Australian health care: a mixed methods exploration

Abstract Background Current evidence highlights that language discordant clinical encounters seriously compromise patient quality of care and health outcomes. We aimed to characterise patterns of interpreter service use in medical inpatient wards use and explore clinician experience of language disc...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jennifer White, Trish Plompen, Christian Osadnik, Leanne Tao, Emily Micallef, Terry Haines
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-09-01
Series:International Journal for Equity in Health
Subjects:
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12939-018-0865-2