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Table 2 Key characteristics of cultural consultation case requests

From: The relevance of clinical ethnography: reflections on 10 years of a cultural consultation service

Referring clinician’s characteristics

• Hospital department/division

• Type of professional

• Function

Patient characteristics

• Age and sex

• Nationality and type of permit

• Years spent in Switzerland

• Religion

• Language abilities

• Level of education

• Main diagnosis

Cultural consultation characteristics

• The nature of the referring clinician’s request to the CCS

• Whether or not a patient assessment was conducted

• Presence of an interpreter or a cultural informant during the assessment

• Key issues affecting care that were identified during the assessment

• Recommendations made to the referring clinician