Assessing Cultural Competence Among Oncology Surgeons.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Racial and ethnic minority groups in the United States have the highest mortality rates for the most common cancers. Various factors, including a perceived lack of culturally congruent care and culturally competent providers, might lead minority patients to decline or delay care. As part of a large multimethod study to understand barriers to care among American Indian and Alaskan native patients with cancer, we examined surgical provider attributes associated with culturally congruent care.

Patients and methods

Surgical providers from six hospitals in the Puget Sound region of Washington State were invited to participate. Participants completed a 50-item survey that assessed demographic data and incorporated the Cultural Competence Assessment (CCA) and the Marlowe-Cr

SUBMITTER: Doorenbos AZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4960461 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature