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Culturally Competent Care

"Culturally Competent Care" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Health care services that are respectful of and responsive to the health beliefs, practices and cultural and linguistic needs of diverse patients. The provider and the patient each bring their individual learned patterns of language and culture to the health care experience which must be transcended to achieve equal access and quality health care.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Culturally Competent Care" by people in this website by year, and whether "Culturally Competent Care" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 11 publications over 6 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2018
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