Assessing the Use of Google Translate for Spanish and Chinese Translations of Emergency Department Discharge Instructions

JAMA Intern Med. 2019 Apr 1;179(4):580-582. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2018.7653.

Authors

Elaine C Khoong¹, Eric Steinbrook², Cortlyn Brown³, Alicia Fernandez^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco.
² University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.
⁴ Center for Vulnerable Populations at University of California, San Francisco.

Abstract

This study assesses the use of Google Translate for Spanish and Chinese translations of emergency department discharge instructions.

MeSH terms

China
Emergency Service, Hospital*
Humans
Language
Patient Discharge*
Search Engine / methods*
Spain
Translating*
Web Browser*