What is the key to culturally competent care: Reducing bias or cultural tailoring?

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To gain a better understanding as to whether disparities in patient-provider relationships arise from ethnic minority patients being treated differently than European American patients while they would prefer to be treated the same, or whether disparities arise when ethnic minority patients are treated the same as European American patients while they would prefer to be treated differently.

Method

African-American, Latina/Latino and European American community members were recruited to participate in one of 27 focus group discussions. Topics included what made a good or bad relationship with a doctor and what led one to trust a doctor. A thematic analysis was conducted using NVivo 10.

Results

Patients of all groups described experiences that reflected the co

SUBMITTER: Cuevas AG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5538350 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature