Developing multilingual prescription instructions for patients with limited english proficiency.
This article describes the development of a set of patient-centered prescription medication instructions and their translation into Chinese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese. Challenges and lessons learned from this process are reported to inform future efforts to develop easy-to-understand, multilingual materials for use in health care settings.
Division of General Internal Medicine at Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA. stacy-bailey@northwestern.edu
Stacy Cooper
SC
Bailey
Romana
R
Hasnain-Wynia
Alice Hm
AH
Chen
Urmimala
U
Sarkar
Alisu
A
Schoua-Glusberg
Lee A
LA
Lindquist
Dean
D
Schillinger
Michael S
MS
Wolf
D003144:Communication Barriers; D003469:Culture; D004348:Drug Labeling; D011307:Drug Prescriptions; D057220:Health Literacy; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D019303:Multilingualism; D010593:Pharmaceutical Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014177:Translations