Gender and ethnic differences in hospital-based procedure utilization in California

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 156, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1217-1224

  Giacomini, Mita K ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DEFIBRILLATOR; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; ASIAN AMERICANS; CALIFORNIA; CARDIOLOGY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HIP PROSTHESIS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LITHOTRIPSY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURGERY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL;

EID: 0029990650     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.156.11.1217     Document Type: Article

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