Department of Sociology, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA. eva.garroutte@bc.edu
Abstract:
Cultural competence models assume that culture affects medical encounters, yet little research uses objective measures to examine how this may be true. Do providers and racial/ethnic minority patients interpret the same interactions similarly or differently? How might patterns of provider–patient concordance and discordance vary for patients with different cultural characteristics?