Home / Discharge Summaries
Certified Discharge Summary Translation
eVerbary translates your discharge summary into English for $24.95 per page with no word cap, by a professional human translator, with a signed certification. Most orders are delivered within a few hours. Accepted by USCIS and by US universities, colleges and schools, or your money back.
$24.95/page
Flat rate per page, no word cap. No hidden fees.
Money-back guarantee
Accepted by USCIS and by US universities, colleges and schools, or your money back.
24-hour delivery
Most 1-3 page documents are delivered within 24 hours. Same-day available.
The document that hands a patient over
A discharge summary is what one set of clinicians writes so the next set knows what happened: the admission, the findings, the procedures performed, the medication on discharge and the follow-up plan. When the treatment happened abroad and the follow-up is here, it is the single most useful document in the file — and it is useless to a doctor who cannot read it.
It comes as an informe de alta, an epicrisis, a compte rendu d'hospitalisation, an Arztbrief or an Entlassungsbrief, usually dense with abbreviations that mean something specific within its own health system.
Drug names, units and abbreviations
This is where a careless translation becomes a clinical risk rather than an inconvenience. The same medicine carries different brand names in different countries, and its international nonproprietary name is what a US clinician will recognise. Laboratory results are reported in units that differ between systems, and a value that looks alarming in one is normal in the other.
So: drug names rendered with the original alongside, units reproduced exactly as measured rather than converted, reference ranges kept where the report prints them, and local abbreviations expanded rather than carried over as initials that mean something different in English. Nothing is converted into what it "would be" here, because that conversion is a clinical judgement and it belongs to the treating physician.
Where discharge summaries get sent
Continuing care with a US physician, a second opinion, an insurance or disability claim supported by treatment abroad, a workers' compensation matter, a personal-injury case, and estate or probate files where a final illness is at issue.
If the claim is an insurance one, the policy and claim file usually travel with it, and sending everything together is what keeps dates and names consistent across the whole set.
How it works
Upload a photo or a scan of your document, pick the language pair and check out online. You never have to mail originals: a legible copy is all we need.
A professional human translator, never machine translation, translates the document word for word and mirrors the layout of the original. Every certified translation ships with a signed Certificate of Translation Accuracy that meets the requirements of USCIS, courts and universities.
Your translation is delivered digitally, usually within 24 hours for documents of one to three pages, and same-day delivery is available. If anything needs adjusting, we revise it.
Certified vs. standard translation
A certified translation is a word-for-word translation accompanied by a signed statement attesting to its accuracy and completeness. It is what official bodies require: USCIS, courts, universities and government agencies. Certified translations are $24.95 per page, where one sheet of your document is one page, with no word cap.
A standard translation is the same professional human translation without the certificate, for when you only need to understand the content or for internal or informal use. It is billed at the same $24.95 per page with no word cap.
Frequently asked questions
Do you convert lab values into US units?
No. Values and units are reproduced as the report gives them, with the reference ranges the laboratory printed. Converting them is a clinical judgement, not a translation.
Are handwritten notes translated?
Yes, everything legible, and anything genuinely illegible is marked as illegible rather than guessed at. On a medical record that distinction matters more than anywhere else.
Is the translation certified?
Yes, with a signed Certificate of Translation Accuracy, which is what insurers, courts and agencies ask for. A physician who only needs to read it may be fine with a standard translation.
Ready to get started?
Upload your documents and receive your certified translation, typically within 24 hours.