Racial and Community Factors Influencing Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery Rates for All 1986 Medicare Patients

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 267, Issue 11, 1992, Pages 1473-1477

  Goldberg, Kenneth C ^a   Hartz, Arthur J ^a   Jacobsen, Steven J ^b   Krakauer, Henry ^c   Rimm, Alfred A ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; FEMALES; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; MALES; MEDICARE; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; SELECTION FOR TREATMENT; SURVEY; UNITED STATES;

AGED; BLACKS; CATCHMENT AREA (HEALTH); COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICARE PART A; PATIENT SELECTION; SURGERY; UNITED STATES; WHITES;

EID: 0026518724     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1992.03480110049032     Document Type: Article

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