title: Physician cultural competence: cross-cultural communication improves care.
abstract: Cross-cultural communication is a skill worth learning. For the busy clinician, using this skill during the patient encounter will enhance the quality of care by improving the doctor-patient relationship, and will perhaps even increase the efficiency of the encounter.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Internal Medicine, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH 44195, USA. misraa@ccf.org
authors.forename: Anita D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Misra-Hebert
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D003144:Communication Barriers; D003469:Culture; D006801:Humans; D008913:Minority Groups; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011787:Quality of Health Care