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ReviewFrontiers in public health2026

Interpreting in healthcare: a systematic search and mapping of ethical issues in health literature.

Sonakshi Bhalla, Ana S Iltis, Jordan Traylor, Kirstin R W Matthews

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Review in Frontiers in public health, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Sonakshi BhallaBaker Institute for Public Policy, Science and Technology Policy Program, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States.
Ana S IltisDepartment of Philosophy and Center for Bioethics, Health and Society, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, United States.
Jordan TraylorBaker Institute for Public Policy, Science and Technology Policy Program, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States.
Kirstin R W MatthewsBaker Institute for Public Policy, Science and Technology Policy Program, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Medical interpreters play a vital role in healthcare settings, ensuring effective communication between providers and their patients when language barriers exist. Interpreters can be

Indexed as

Communication BarriersMedical InterpretingTranslatingConfidentialityEthical DilemmasHumansequitylanguage proficiencymedical interpretationmoral distresstranslation

Identifiers

PMID42683269
PMCPMC13531408

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