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Medical journals published in non-English languages face a handicap: their worldwide readership and citation are reduced in comparison to journals published in English. This handicap is worse for small journals edited in developing countries, regardless of whether they publish original research articles including abstr…

To compare 7-day readmission among patients with a non-English primary language in language-serving versus non-language-serving hospitals.We conducted a retrospective cohort study using the New Jersey State Inpatient Database (2010-2022). We identified 578 030 inpatient discharges home among patients with a non-…

OBJECTIVE: The goal of this study was to assess the rate of positive depression screens in a randomly selected group of 111 patients at St. Luke's Free Medical Clinic in Spartanburg, South Carolina, while also looking for differences in positive depression screeners between English- and Spanish-speaking patients. Our h…

BACKGROUND: The Internet serves as an extensive database with easy access to diverse content, positioning it as an important source of medical information today. The aim of this study was to evaluate the quality and credibility of information available online regarding the use of the ketogenic diet in the treatment of…

PURPOSE: This article presents a large-scale example of culturally responsive assessment and analysis of multilingual Vietnamese-English-speaking children and their family members using the VietSpeech Protocol involving (a) examining all spoken languages, (b) comparing ambient phonology produced by family members, (c)…

OBJECTIVE: To examine associations of patient ratings of communication by health care providers with patient language (English vs Spanish) and ethnicity (Latino vs white). METHODS: A random sample of patients receiving medical care from a physician group association concentrated on the West Coast was studied. A total…

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The accomplishment of translator in standardized English translation of TCM should be paid more attention, since it cannot but influence the foreign academic inter-communion and quality of transmission of TCM.

Aiming at the present tedious English translation of traditional Chinese medicine, the author advocates some approaches to simplify it in order to improve the readability, communicability and quality of translation.

This paper serves as a brief review of the problem of "Chinglish" that is frequent in English medical papers of Chinese authors, and with examples of such linguistic entity and theoretical analysis of its origin, the authors propose its possible solutions.

In this article, we attempt to grammatically classify the mistakes that frequently appear in the English medical papers written by Chinese, for the purpose of drawing attention on these avoidable mistakes from the authors to improve their medical paper writing in English.

The English term ginger originates from Sanskrit sringavera (sringam=horn+vera=body), which was transformed to Latin gingiber and to Old French gingibre, which resulted in ginger in English. The German Ingwer was derived from the same origin, but lost its front sound. The Chinese and Japanese terms for ginger are brief…

In multilingual nursing education, English-medium practices often dominate teaching, assessment and documentation, positioning students' home languages as informal or inappropriate for legitimate academic participation. This qualitative, descriptive, exploratory and contextual study investigates how nurse educators con…

This study investigates how English learning burnout (ELB), academic buoyancy (AB), and foreign language enjoyment (FLE) jointly and independently influence the English academic achievement of Chinese senior high school students. Drawing on the Control-Value Theory of Achievement Emotions, data from 640 students were a…