Video-Interpreting in Prehospital Emergency Medicine - Feasibility Study

April 15, 2026 updated by: Christina Hafner, Medical University of Vienna
50 responsive patients with language barriers will be included in this study. The prehospital emergency physician will start video-interpreting via a tablet. Feasibility, quality of communication, usability as well as changes in diagnosis and treatment will be gathered and analysed.

Study Overview

Status

Recruiting

Conditions

Study Type

Observational

Enrollment (Estimated)

50

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Contact

Study Contact Backup

Study Locations

  • Austria
      • Vienna, Austria, 1090
        • Recruiting
        • Medical University of Vienna
        • Contact:
        • Principal Investigator:
          • Christina Hafner, DDr.
        • Sub-Investigator:
          • Maike Fink, Dr.med.univ.

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

N/A

Sampling Method

Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

50 responsive patients treated by prehospital emergency doctors of the Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Management (Medical University of Vienna/ General Hospital of Vienna) with language barrier (14 languages Albanian, Dari, Romanian, Turkish, Modern Standard Arabic, Arabic, Farsi, Russian, Hungarian, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Kurdish (Kurmanci), Slovakian, Bulgarian, Polish, and Czech) will be included regarding inclusion and exclusion criteria mentioned above.

Description

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
  • out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients
  • delay of treatment or transportation due to e-interpreting
  • refusal of video-interpreting by the patient

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Technical Feasibility
Time Frame: Immediately after use of video-interpreting

The technical feasibility endpoint evaluates the possibility of video-interpreting.

The occurrence of technical problems will be reported.
Immediately after use of video-interpreting
Usability of video-interpreting
Time Frame: Immediately after use of video-interpreting

The usability will be evaluated after the rescue mission by the prehospital emergency doctor using a questionnaire including following items on a 7-point Likert scale (strongly disagree to strongly agree):

  • Video-translation was easy to use.
  • I feel comfortable to use video-translation during the situation.
  • The amount of time involved to use video-translation has been fitting for me.
  • I would use video-translation again.
  • Video-translation was useful for my healthcare practice in this situation.
Immediately after use of video-interpreting
Impact on emergency physician's decisions
Time Frame: Immediately after use of video-interpreting
The impact of video-translation will be evaluated regarding alteration of medical history, treatment or target hospital.
Immediately after use of video-interpreting

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Demographic parameters
Time Frame: Immediately after use of video-interpreting

Following characteristics of the patients will be recorded:

Age, Gender, primary diagnosis of the prehospital emergency physician
Immediately after use of video-interpreting

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Medical University of Vienna

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

February 6, 2023

Primary Completion (Estimated)

December 31, 2026

Study Completion (Estimated)

December 31, 2026

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

October 25, 2023

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

March 13, 2024

First Posted (Actual)

March 20, 2024

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

April 20, 2026

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

April 15, 2026

Last Verified

October 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 1718/2022

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.

No

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