Cultural safety seeks to remediate health inequities through empowering marginalized and minoritized patient populations, minimizing implicit bias and incorporating social determinants of health into practice. Here, we propose a cultural safety framework to guide communication with patients from sexual and gender minorities.
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Nikzad, N., Duong, N. & Paul, S. Improving culturally safe engagement with sexual and gender minority populations. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41575-024-00927-y
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