The safety of health care for ethnic minority patients: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Evidence to date indicates that patients from ethnic minority backgrounds may experience disparity in the quality and safety of health care they receive due to a range of socio-cultural factors. Although heightened risk of patient safety events is of key concern, there is a dearth of evidence regarding the nature and rate of patient safety events occurring amongst ethnic minority consumers, which is critical for the development of relevant intervention approaches to enhance the safety of their care.

Objectives

To establish how ethnic minority populations are conceptualised in the international literature, and the implications of this in shaping of our findings; the evidence of patient safety events arising among ethnic minority healthcare consumers international

SUBMITTER: Chauhan A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7346414 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature