Black Women Receive Less Mammography even with Similar Use of Primary Care

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 173-182

  Burns, Risa B ^a,b   McCarthy, Ellen P ^a   Freund, Karen M ^a   Marwill, Sandra L ^a   Shwartz, Michael ^a,c   Ash, Arlene ^a   Moskowitz, Mark A ^a  

^a BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; INCOME; MAMMOGRAPHY; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INCOME; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAMMOGRAPHY; OUTPATIENTS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030216153     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-125-3-199608010-00002     Document Type: Article

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