Pharmaceutical translations needed: study
posted Fri, 2010-05-14 16:05 by
A lack of Spanish-language translations for medicine instructions is putting American patients at risk of overdosing or underdosing, a study by Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine has found.
The study of 764 pharmacies across four US states with high Latino populations found that only 43.3% could provide translated instructions for their medications, and many of those that did come with translations were often wrong.
