National standards on culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS) in health care. Washington, DC: Office of Minority Health, US Department of Health and Human Services; 2001.National Standards on Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health Care (2001). U.S. Department ...
grows increasingly diverse, health and health care organizations are increasingly implementing culturally and linguistically appropriate services to reduce health disparities and improve quality of care. Culturally and linguistically appropriate services encompass the provision of services that are respectful of ...
Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services -- Advancing Health with CLAS.The article discusses the U.S. Department of Health's Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) which provide a framework to address health disparities by offering services responsive to individual cultural ...
Culturally and linguistically ap- propriate services-advancing health with CLAS. N Engl J Med. 2014;371(3):198-201.Koh HK, Gracia JN, Alvarez ME. Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services--advancing health with CLAS. N Engl J Med. 2014;371(3):198–201....
This paper provides actionable recommendations on using culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS) standards as a management tool to reduce costs and improve quality of care in behavioural health-care organisations. The qualitative Delphi study, on which the paper is based, documented the...
This paper shows how Base SAS(R) 9 was used to conduct a gap analysis on how several health care facilities aredoing on adhering to the 14 federal standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS). In thesummer of 2009, these facilities were asked to have staff complete...
Based on seven years of experience in this area, CAP program staff proposes that the success of culturally and linguistically appropriate services depends on the degree to which organizational "buy-in" is achieved, the enforcement of the standards and the ability of health care organizations to ...
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Journal of Cancer EducationGraham G, Heurtin-Roberts S. Addressing disparities in clinical trials: Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Standards in Clinical Trials (CLAS-ACT) and the EDICT BackPack Initiative. J Cancer Educ. 2009;24:S54-S55....
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