Product or Process: Cultural Competence or Cultural Humility?
Journal Title: Palliative Medicine & Hospice Care – Open Journal - Year 2017, Vol 3, Issue 1
Abstract
The Institute of Healthcare’s Triple Aim Initiative (TAI) identifies the improvement of patients’ experience as one of three key components necessary for optimizing the American health care and cost-delivery systems.1 Widely adopted today, the TAI’s focus on patient-centered care2 also implicitly embeds the idea of care that is culturally-sensitive. Perhaps nowhere in the health-care delivery system is this emphasis on patient-centered, culturally sensitive, care more important than for those addressing life-limiting illness3 or for frail elders who are coping with the advanced stages of multiple chronic conditions.
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Cecile N. Yancu
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