Cultural competence: Why?

Annals of Oncology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 697-699

  Surbone, Antonella ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPETENCE; CULTURAL FACTOR; CURRICULUM; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDITORIAL; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMMUNICATION; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS;

EID: 2642513395     PISSN: 09237534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdh194     Document Type: Editorial

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