ArticleAnnals of family medicine2025
Medical Interpreting in Primary Care: Design and Validation of a Replicable Training Program.
Article in Annals of family medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
purposeLanguage-concordant and professional interpreter-mediated care improve health outcomes, but clinics often lack resources to meet these needs. We developed and tested a replicable process to train heritage Spanish-speaking employees as qualified dual-role interpreters.
methodsOur interdisciplinary team conducted a single-group, pretest-post-test study in a community health center. Participants (137 individuals) completed a demographic survey, a self-assessment of Spanish proficiency, a formal oral proficiency test of general Spanish, a 40-hour online medical interpreter course, and pre- and post-training interpretation assessments. We used a multivariate regression analysis, Spearman's rank-order correlation, and paired
resultsOf 137 enrolled, 87 completed training and post-assessment. Heritage speakers had limited ability to predict their general Spanish proficiency (β = .14,
conclusionsAn affordable, online training program can effectively prepare heritage Spanish-speaking clinic employees to be qualified interpreters. Clinics can use this approach to meet federal language access standards and address health disparities.Abstract also available in
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.