Physician cultural sensitivity in African American advance care planning: a pilot study.

Background: Physician cultural sensitivity is particularly important for end-of-life care. This study correlates physicians' own racial background, clinical experience, and cultural sensitivity training with their attitudes, perceptions, and knowledge of advance care planning issues for African American patients.

Methods: A cross-sectional self-report questionnaire was distributed to 236 physicians at three major teaching hospitals.

Sexual problems among a specific population of minority women aged 40-80 years attending a primary care practice.

Introduction: Clinicians are embarrassed about discussing sex with patients and do not know how to ask about sexual problems in a way that will optimize honest and open responses. Learning about inquiry responses and the prevalence of sexual problems among specific groups of women, including minority women, can help identify appropriate inquiry and management pathways.

Aim: To better understand useful inquiry techniques as well as to describe the prevalence of sexual problems among a specific group of minority women aged 40-80 years.