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Use of a bilingual medical history questionnaire in the emergency department

✍ Scribed by Isam Nasr; Marco Cordero; Blaine Houmes; Joanne Fagan; Robert Rydman; Constance Green

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1993
Tongue: English
Weight: 469 KB
Volume: 22
Category: Article
ISSN: 1097-6760
DOI: 10.1016/s0196-0644(05)80799-1

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✦ Synopsis

Study objective: To demonstrate that a complete and rapid clinical history can be obtained using a self-administered, bilingual questionnaire.

Design: A post-test experimental design was used to evaluate time spent obtaining the history and information completeness for the two groups.

Setting: Urban county emergency department.

Participants: All patients were non-English-speaking Hispanic women who presented with gynecologic complaints.

Methods: Fifty-five patients completed a history questionnaire in Spanish on a form that displayed their responses in English on the carbon copy. In the control group, a history was obtained using a bilingual interpreter.

Results: Average completion time was significantly less (t= 14.38; P< .0001) for the experimental group (Z 2 = 5.67 minutes; SD, 1.89)than for controls (X z = 14.58 minutes; SD, 4.19). There was no statistical difference in review criteria for documentation between groups.

Conclusion: Using a bilingual questionnaire to obtain a clinical history results in more rapid patient evaluation without affecting the quality of information obtained.

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