Identifying barriers and improving communication between cancer service providers and Aboriginal patients and their families: The perspective of service providers

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Shahid, Shaouli ^a   Durey, Angela ^b   Bessarab, Dawn ^b   Aoun, Samar M ^c   Thompson, Sandra C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aboriginal; Cancer; Cancer service provider; Communication; Health service provider; Indigenous

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; NEOPLASM; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TRUST;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMMUNICATION; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; NEOPLASMS; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; TRUST; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84886732823     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-13-460     Document Type: Review

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