Observed and personally experienced discrimination: findings of a cross-sectional survey of physicians and nursing staff.

Background: Discrimination against hospital staff based on ascribed features is prevalent in healthcare systems worldwide. Detrimental effects on health and quality of patient care have been shown. Our study aims to describe and analyse the discrimination experiences of both physicians and nurses, specifically for the German hospital context.

Organisational and staff-related effects on cultural competence in the hospital setting: a cross-sectional online survey of nursing and medical staff.

Background: Cultural competence is considered a core qualification for dealing with socio-cultural diversity and balancing disparities in health care.

Objectives: To explore features supporting and inhibiting cultural competence in the hospital at both organisational and staff levels.

Design: Cross-sectional online survey in the form of a full census from May to November 2018.

[The migration background in multicultural care settings – results of a qualitative and quantitative survey of elderly migrants from Turkey].

Background: Migration is associated with an increase of multicultural care settings. The acceptance of such care relations from user’s point of view has been rarely explored yet. Aim: It is examined, if and how elderly migrants from Turkey consider a common migration background respectively a common socio-cultural background of caregivers as relevant.