EDUCATOR Assessment: CHCPOL003 Medical Interpretation Benefits Report

This report, prepared for the CHCPOL003 unit, explores the benefits of professional medical interpretation services within the healthcare system. It highlights the importance of interpreters in removing linguistic barriers, improving patient-healthcare professional communication, and ensuring accurate understanding of treatment plans and health outcomes. The report emphasizes how interpretation enhances the quality of care, aligns with government regulations, and reduces risks associated with language barriers, such as misdiagnosis. Objectives discussed include achieving precise medical histories, reducing patient stress, and improving efficiency in healthcare settings. The report outlines the methods used to collect data, referencing literature reviews, cohort studies, cross-sectional surveys, and case reports, supporting the claims with relevant academic sources. The report is a valuable resource for understanding the impact of interpretation on patient care and healthcare outcomes.

Professional Interpreter: A Mediator
Introduction
• Professional medical interpreters are important factor
for working along and removing linguistic barriers in
patient-healthcare relations.
• Healthcare suffers if patients and the professionals
witness unsatisfactory communication among them.
• It helps the healthcare professional to understand
better their patients and explain them the process of
treatment and their health outcomes in a much fine
manner (Karliner, Pérez-Stable & Gregorich, 2017).
Objectives
The objective of professional interpreter is to :
• Achieve more precise medical histories of patients
• Reduce stress among patients and their family
members
• Improve the efficiency in healthcare settings
• Retain better understanding and provide treatment
plan (Lee et al., 2017).
Methods used to collect data regarding
the effectiveness of the implication of
the practice.
• Literature review
• Cohort studies
• Cross-sectional surveys
• Case reports
Benefits of interpretation services in
the healthcare system:
Granhagen Jungner, J., Tiselius, E., Blomgren, K., Lützén, K., &
Pergert, P. (2019). Language barriers and the use of professional
interpreters: a national multisite cross-sectional survey in pediatric
oncology care. Acta Oncologica, 1-6.
Karliner, L. S., Pérez-Stable, E. J., & Gregorich, S. E.(2017).
Convenient access to professional interpreters in the hospital
decreases readmission rates and estimated hospital expenditures for
patients with limited English proficiency. Medical care, 55(3), 199.
Lee, J. S., Pérez-Stable, E. J., Gregorich, S. E., Crawford, M. H.,
Green, A., Livaudais-Toman, J., & Karliner, L. S. (2017). Increased
access to professional interpreters in the hospital improves informed
consent for patients with limited English proficiency. Journal of
general internal medicine, 32(8), 863-870.
References
• Increasing the quality of health care and
treatment: it will ensure a better communication
among people with the deprived knowledge of
English which was becoming a barrier to a safer and
effective healthcare service.
• Act in accordance with the Government
regulations: it focuses on to the government laws
and rules which help them to provide a better
healthcare service without any discrimination based
on language imparity.
• Reducing risk factors and health complication in
patients: language barriers may lead to
misunderstanding and misdiagnosis which may lead
to sever health complications, interpretation will help
to clears such errors by removing miscommunication
due to language difference (Granhagen Jungner et al.,
2019).