SynthesisBMC medical ethics2017
"How do ethnic minority patients experience the intercultural care encounter in hospitals? a systematic review of qualitative research".
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41 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The patient perspective on diversity-sensitive care: a systematic review.International journal for equity in health · 2024Pooled it
- Healthcare practitioners' perspectives of providing palliative care to patients from culturally diverse backgrounds: a qualitative systematic review.BMC palliative care · 2023Pooled it
- Strategies to implement multifactorial falls prevention interventions in community-dwelling older persons: a systematic review.Implementation science : IS · 2023Pooled it
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- Maternal Health Literacy among Migrant Women: A Co-Design Study in Portugal.Portuguese journal of public health · 2026Article
- Patients' Experiences of Care During Hospitalization for Acute Respiratory Failure During COVID-19: A Multi-Center Qualitative Study.Journal of patient experience · 2026Article
- 'At the heart of the community' - a Somali woman's experience of 'alignment' of support to escape social isolation in pregnancy and early motherhood.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2025Article
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- [Challenges and perspectives of family support in the intensive care unit: focus on vulnerable relatives].Medizinische Klinik, Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin · 2025Review
- Who do you Prefer to Take Care of you: A Jewish or an Arab Nurse? Nationality and Religion Preferences in Israeli Hospitals.Journal of religion and health · 2025Article
- Risk and Protective Factors of Conflicts Between Hospitalized Older Adults and Their Family Members: Structural Equation Modeling (SEM).Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Embracing the complexity of lived experiences in psychiatry research: Reflexivity, cultural sensitivity, and emergent design.World journal of psychiatry · 2024Article
- Cross-Cultural Patient Counseling and Communication in the Integrative Medicine Setting: Respecting the Patient's Health Belief Model of Care.Current psychiatry reports · 2024Review
- Trans-Inclusive Communication and Self-Perceived Barriers to It, as Reported by Doctors-A Mixed-Methods Survey in Germany.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Meeting a need: development and validation of PubMed search filters for immigrant populations.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2024Article
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- Mi-CARE: Comparing Three Evidence-Based Interventions to Promote Colorectal Cancer Screening among Ethnic Minorities within Three Different Clinical Contexts.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- An inconvenience to the nurse's practice: A Foucault-inspired study of ethnic minority patients.Nursing inquiry · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundIn our globalizing world, caregivers are increasingly being confronted with the challenges of providing intercultural healthcare, trying to find a dignified answer to the vulnerable situation of ethnic minority patients. Until now, international literature lacks insight in the intercultural care process as experienced by the ethnic minority patients themselves. We aim to fill this gap by analysing qualitative literature on the intercultural care encounter in the hospital setting, as experienced by ethnic minority patients.
methodsA systematic search was conducted for papers published between 2000 and 2015. Analysis and synthesis were guided by the critical interpretive synthesis approach.
resultsFifty one articles were included. Four dimensions emerged, describing the intercultural care encounter as (1) a meeting of two different cultural contexts of care, (2) in a dynamic and circular process of (3) balancing between the two cultural contexts, which is (4) influenced by mediators as concepts of being human, communication, family members and the hospital's organizational culture.
conclusionsThis review provides in-depth insight in the dynamic process of establishing intercultural care relationships in the hospital. We call for a broader perspective towards cultural sensitive care in which patients are cared for in a holistic and dignity-enhancing way.
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