Health and Fitness for Tuesday March 22, 2011

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Health interpreter: Hospitals get serious WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (UPI) -- Federal laws have required U.S hospitals to provide interpreters to non-native speakers, but there has been little enforcement until now, a U.S researcher says. Dr. Olgierda Furmanek, associate professor at Wake Forest University says the Joint Commission, which accredits and certifies more than 18,000 U.S. healthcare organizations (including hospitals), is establishing new standards effective in January requiring hospitals to provide language interpreting and translation services. Furmanek designed a new curriculum and Wake Forest is offering a new master's degree in interpreting and translation studies with three tracks, including the Intercultural Services in Healthcare option, which prepares graduates for managerial careers in areas of culture-sensitive healthcare delivery. Another track, teaching of interpreting, will be the only one in the Northern Hemisphere educating faculty for college-level interpreting programs. The program begins next fall and the deadline for applying April 15. There are many certificate programs for medical interpreters, but the field lacks professional rigor the way legal interpreting does, Furmanek says. In addition to being fluent in a second language, medical interpreters must know a great deal of medical terminology, have good memory recall, understand ethics and cultural sensitivities, be accurate and precise in interpreting and translating medical information and they cannot omit or filter information exchanged between a doctor and a patient, Furmanek explains. Copyright 2011 by United Press International
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Domestic violence victims missed in ER UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. (UPI) -- About 80 percent of female victims of intimate partner violence are treated in U.S. hospitals, but most are not identified as abuse victims, researchers say. The study, published online in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, found of the women treated in hospital emergency rooms, 72 percent are not identified as abuse victims, and of those who are identified, few are offered adequate support. Dr. Karin Rhodes of the University of Pennsylvania and colleagues say hospital emergency departments have mandated protocols for intimate partner violence screening and intervention. The research team examined all emergency department visits and intimate partner violence-related police events from 1999 to 2002 at eight hospitals in a semi-rural Midwestern county. A total of 993 female victims of domestic violence generated 3,246 related police incidents over the four-year study period. Women who had filed a police complaint the day of treatment, had been taken to the hospital by police, had self-disclosed domestic assault, or had mental health and substance abuse issues were more likely to be identified as victims of domestic violence, the study says. Copyright 2011 by United Press International
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'Rocking chair voters' have limited access PHILADELPHIA (UPI) -- Young adults have been trying to "rock the vote" to get younger people to vote, but U.S. researchers say the same effort is needed for "rocking chair voters." Dr. Jason Karlawish, an associate professor of medicine and medical ethics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia, says for seniors voting can be difficult -- standing with a walker or cane in the voting booth, struggling to read the tiny print on the ballot or trying to punch a tiny box or button to vote. Despite the desire to vote, the typical voting process leaves many of the elderly disenfranchised, especially residents of nursing homes, Karlawish says. Study co-investigator Charlie Sabatino, director of the American Bar Association's Commission on Law and Aging says mobile polling is standard in other countries, but has not been widely adopted in the United States, despite recent recommendations from the American Bar Association to improve voting access in long-term care settings. Mobile polling involves election officials registering voters at the nursing home, then bringing ballots to residents and providing individual voter assistance as needed, the researchers say. However, the study, published in the Election Law Journal, says election officials need to be willing to perform mobile voting, provide staff to go to nursing homes and match nursing home resident lists to registered voter lists. Copyright 2011 by United Press International
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Injuries up after bodychecking rule change TORONTO (UPI) -- Brain injuries have risen sharply among younger children following the relaxing of bodychecking rules in Canadian youth hockey, Toronto researchers say. Study leader Dr. Michael Cusimano, a neurosurgeon at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, says minor hockey players in the Atom division are more than 10 times likelier to suffer a brain injury since bodychecking was first allowed among 9-year-olds and 10-year-olds during the 1998-1999 season. Cusimano, director of the Injury Prevention Research Centre at St. Michael's Hospital, says the odds of visiting an emergency room due to a brain injury from bodychecking increased significantly among all minor hockey players after Hockey Canada relaxed bodychecking rules. Cusimano and his research team examined the records of 8,552 male youth ages 6-17, who visited one of five emergency departments in Ontario for hockey-related injuries that occurred before and after the rule change. The study, published in the journal Open Medicine, found more than half of hockey-related injuries were a result of bodychecking, while the risk of a head or neck injury, including concussions, increased across all minor hockey divisions. Copyright 2011 by United Press International
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