Racial and ethnic minorities often receive lower-quality health care than white patients, even
when socioeconomic status, education, access, and other factors are used as controls. To …

Emergency language services play a critical role in emergency management and language
services, facilitating effective information transmission, timely life-saving efforts, accurate …

In this timely new contribution, Koehn and Rosenau develop their transnational-competence
framework and demonstrate the promise of its application across six critical professions …

Objective. To examine the self-administered Clinical Cultural Competency Questionnaire
(CCCQ) and assess the perceived level of cultural competence of students in Xavier …

BACKGROUND Recent reports from the Institute of Medicine emphasize patient-centered
care and cross-cultural training as a means of improving the quality of medical care and …

Background There are many interventions to facilitate seamless continuity of care for
patients in transition from hospital back to primary care; however, disparities remain in …

The need for physicians formally trained to deliver care to diverse patient populations has
been widely advocated. Utilizing a validated tool, Weissman and Betancourt's Cross …

Abstract In the fall 2010, East Carolina University's Department of Public Health in the Brody
School of Medicine introduced a new graduate certificate online program to its curriculum …

This study applied social unconscious theory to measure the relationships among race,
implicit racial bias, and treatment recommendations to ascertain whether they might suggest …

Purpose–This paper aims to compare and contrast quality improvement in the domain of
health care disparities with quality improvement in other domains. Design/methodology …