Few Pharmacies Can Translate Prescription Labels Into Spanish
Monday, June 1, 2009 - 00:28
in Health & Medicine
Surprisingly few pharmacies in the US are able to translate prescription medication instructions into Spanish, making it difficult for patients who speak only Spanish to understand how to take their medications properly, according to a new study. The first multi-state study investigating the ability of pharmacies to translate prescription labels found more than half of the pharmacies were unable to translate any labels or could do only a limited number of translations.
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