Using professional interpreters to overcome language barriers: An imperative in the care of linguistically-diverse patients in critical care
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Sundararajan, Krishnaswamy
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Professional interpreters are imperative to overcoming communication barriers in intensive care unit (ICU) for patients who are linguistically-diverse. Similarly referred to as non-English speaking, speaking a language other than English [1], limited English proficiency [2], those who are language discordant [3], have a non-English language preference or speak a language of lesser diffusion [4], patients who are linguistically-diverse are at greater risk negative sequelae associated with ICU admission.
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Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
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89
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© 2025 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Bloomer, MJ; Sundararajan, K, Using professional interpreters to overcome language barriers: An imperative in the care of linguistically-diverse patients in critical care, Intensive and Critical Care Nursing, 2025, 89, pp. 104017