Establishing Effective Health Care Partnerships with Sexual and Gender Minority Patients: Recommendations for Obstetrician Gynecologists

Seminars in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 397-407

  Cook, Scott C ^a   Gunter, Kathryn E ^a   Lopez, Fanny Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

culturally competent care; gender identity; patient provider interactions; prejudice; sexual orientation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; EMPATHY; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; GYNECOLOGIST; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE BASE; LANGUAGE; MALE; OBSTETRICIAN; PREJUDICE; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; TRANSCULTURAL CARE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; GYNECOLOGY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; OBSTETRICS; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOLOGY; SEXUAL AND GENDER MINORITY; STANDARDS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; CULTURALLY COMPETENT CARE; EMPATHY; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGY; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; OBSTETRICS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; SEXUAL AND GENDER MINORITIES;

EID: 85032575957     PISSN: 15268004     EISSN: 15264564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1604464     Document Type: Review

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