Undertreatment of glaucoma among black americans

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 325, Issue 20, 1991, Pages 1418-1422

  Javitt, Jonathan C ^a   McBean, A Marshall ^b   Nicholson, Geraldine A ^b   Babish, J Daniel ^b   Warren, Joan L ^b   Krakauer, Henry ^c  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Office of Behavioral Safety Research   (United States)

^c Health Care Financing Administration   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; NEGRO; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLINDNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANS; MEDICARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0026005926     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199111143252005     Document Type: Article

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