ArticleJournal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association2025
Increasing in-person medical interpreter utilization in the NICU through a bundle of interventions.
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- Strategies to Increase Professional Interpreting in Clinical Settings: A Systematic Review.JAMA network open · 2025Pooled it
- Language access in the neonatal intensive care unit: inequities, legality, practice, and call to action.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2026Article
- Experiences of communication in the neonatal intensive care unit for mothers with a preferred language other than English.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2025Article
- Health care access, utilization, and quality for children in English versus Spanish-speaking households.Health affairs scholar · 2025Article
- Preferred Parental Language and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes Among Infants With Acute Provoked Neonatal Seizures in the United States.Pediatric neurology · 2025Article
- Parental impact during and after neonatal intensive care admission.Seminars in perinatology · 2024Review
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Abstract
backgroundIn-person medical interpretation improves communication with patients who have preferred language other than English (PLOE). Multi-dimensional barriers to use of medical interpreters limit their use in the NICU. LOCAL PROBLEM: Medical teams in our NICU were not consistently using in-person medical interpreters, leading to ineffective communication with families with PLOE. METHODS/
interventionsInterventions included staff educational sessions and grand rounds regarding equitable language access, distribution of interpreter request cards to families, and allocation of dedicated in-person interpreters for NICU rounds. Interpreter utilization was calculated by total requests per Spanish-speaking person day in the NICU.
resultsInterpreter utilization increased five-fold during the intervention period (from 0.2 to 1.0 requests per Spanish-speaking person day).
conclusionsWe substantially increased our unit in-person interpreter utilization through a bundle of multifaceted interventions, many of which were low-cost. NICUs should regard dedicated medical interpreters as a critical part of the care team.
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