Fleming David A
Center for Health Ethics, Department of Health Management and Informatics, University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine, USA.
Mo Med. 2003 Jan-Feb;100(1):69-75.
Cultural origins influence the way patients and health care providers think about care and treatment at the end-of-life. With increasing ethnic diversity there is greater chance that clinical encounters will occur between individuals of different backgrounds, therefore there is greater risk of misunderstanding. Health care providers should be mindful of cultural differences when informing patients, discussing advance care planning, responding to requests for assistance in dying, and responding to requests for limiting treatment.
文化起源会影响患者和医疗服务提供者在临终时对护理和治疗的看法。随着种族多样性的增加，不同背景的个体之间进行临床接触的可能性更大，因此产生误解的风险也更高。在告知患者、讨论预先护理计划、回应安乐死请求以及回应限制治疗请求时，医疗服务提供者应留意文化差异。
