The Practice of Cross-Cultural Medical Services in the United States and Its Enlightenment to China
10.12026/j.issn.1001-8565.2022.04.09
- VernacularTitle:美国跨文化医疗实践的做法及对我国的启示
- Author:
He ZHANG
1
;
Jiayin QI
1
;
Li LI
1
Author Information
1. Office of International Affairs and External Cooperation, Peking University People’s Hospital, Beijing 100044, China
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
American Hospitals;
Cross-Cultural Medical Competence;
Service Concepts;
Patient-centered
- From:
Chinese Medical Ethics
2022;35(4):401-406
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
This paper collected and sorted out the cross-cultural medical practice in the top 20 US hospitals in 2019-2020 through web surveys, and summarized the concepts, featured projects and models of cross-cultural medical services in American hospitals. Generally, hospitals in the US advocate the service concept of "patient-centered", provide full-process services before, during and after the treatment, involving appointments, accommodation, transportation, language translation, medical process management, etc., and attach great importance to the role of culture factors in medical treatment and cross-cultural medical education and training for employees. On this basis, it is proposed that Chinese medical institutions should focus on the following aspects in the development of foreign-related medical services: conform to international medical service concepts and standards, improve the cross-cultural medical competence of medical staff and other groups, explore cross-cultural medical service models with localized characteristics, and build the international image of the hospital with the construction of international environment.
