Evaluating the Usefulness of Translation Technologies for Emergency Response Communication: A Scenario-Based Study.

Background: In the United States, language barriers pose challenges to communication in emergency response and impact emergency care delivery and quality for individuals who are limited English proficient (LEP). There is a growing interest among Emergency Medical Services (EMS) personnel in using automated translation tools to improve communications with LEP individuals in the field. However, little is known about whether automated translation software can be used successfully in EMS settings to improve communication with LEP individuals.

Uncovering exposures responsible for birth season - disease effects: a global study.

Objective: Birth month and climate impact lifetime disease risk, while the underlying exposures remain largely elusive. We seek to uncover distal risk factors underlying these relationships by probing the relationship between global exposure variance and disease risk variance by birth season.

Material And Methods: This study utilizes electronic health record data from 6 sites representing 10.