Can You Take Care of My Mother? Reflections on Cultural Competency and Clinical Accommodation

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 275-277

  Padela, Aasim I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL COMPETENCE; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MOSLEM; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; STANDARD;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 33847045684     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2006.10.003     Document Type: Editorial

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