Racial Inequalities in the Use of Procedures for Patients With Ischemic Heart Disease in Massachusetts

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 261, Issue 2, 1989, Pages 253-257

  Wenneker, Mark B ^a   Epstein, Arnold M ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; ETHNIC OR RACIAL ASPECTS; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION; MALE; NEGRO; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; BLACKS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; WHITES;

EID: 0024500079     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1989.03420020107039     Document Type: Article

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