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Table 6 Training in how/why to use an interpreter by department

From: Overcoming language barriers with foreign-language speaking patients: a survey to investigate intra-hospital variation in attitudes and practices

Received training

Anesthesiology/

Pharmacology/

Intensive Care

Surgery

Child and Adolescent Health

Gynecology and Obstetrics

Community Medicine and Primary Care

Genetic Medicine and Laboratory

Internal Medicine

Clinical Neurosciences

Psychiatry

Rehabilitation and Geriatrics

Yes

2 (2%)

3 (3%)

13 (10%)

1 (3%)

27 (38%)

0

9 (7%)

3 (5%)

24 (15%)

3 (3%)

No

88 (98%)

92 (97%)

122 (90%)

30 (97%)

45 (63%)

20 (100%)

126 (93%)

56 (95%)

141 (85%)

97 (97%)

TOTAL N

90

95

135

31

72

20

135

59

165

100