Video-Interpreting in an Emergency Trauma Room Setting - a Feasibility Trial

Status

Withdrawn

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT06596538

Enrollment

Registered

2024-09-19

Start date

2023-09-04

Completion date

2025-12-01

Last updated

2025-10-03

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Conditions

Communication Barriers

Keywords

Communication barriers, Language barriers, Video-Interpreting, Emergency Medicine, Emergency physician

Brief summary

Background: Global migration increases the likelihood of language barriers. In medical situations language barriers have a negative effect on quality of treatment and thus endanger patient safety. In-hospital settings feasibility of video-translation has been demonstrated, yet there is lack of evidence in emergency trauma rooms. There, the physicians have to deal with time-critical decisions. Aims: This feasibility trial aims to investigate technical feasibility, usability as well as the impact on decision-making (e.g. alteration of treatment strategies). Methods: In this study 50 responsive patients with language barriers will be included. The anesthesiologic emergency physician will start video-translation via a tablet. Feasibility, quality of communication, usability as well as changes in diagnosis and treatment will be gathered and analyzed.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

OTHER

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Inclusion criteria

* adult patients, at least 18 years old * awake, responsive patients * language barrier (Albanian, Dari, Romanian, Turkish, Modern Standard Arabic, Arabic, Farsi, Russian, Hungarian, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Kurdish (Kurmanci), Slovakian, Bulgarian, Polish, and Czech)

Exclusion criteria

* unconscious patients * cardiac arrest patients * delay of treatment due to e-translation * refusal of video-translation by the patient

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Technical Feasibility	Directly after use of video-interpreting	Occurance of technical problems will be reported
Usability of video-interpreting	Directly after use of video-interpreting	The usability will be evaluated afterwards by the anesthesiologic emergency physician using a questionnaire including following items on a 7-point Likert scale (strongly disagree to strongly agree): * Video-interpreting was easy to use. * I feel comfortable to use video-interpreting during the situation. * The amount of time involved to use video-interpreting has been fitting for me. * I would use video-interpreting again. * Video-interpreting was useful for my healthcare practice in this situation.
Impact on emergency physician's decisions	Directly after use of video-interpreting	The impact of video-translation will be evaluated regarding alteration of medical history or treatment (yes/no)

Other

Measure	Time frame	Description
Demographic parameters	Directly after use of video-interpreting	Following characteristics of the patients will be recorded: Age, gender, primary diagnosis of the physician

Countries

Austria

Outcome results