Can characteristics of a health care system mitigate ethnic bias in access to cardiovascular procedures? Experience from the military health services system

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 901-907

  Taylor, Allen J ^a,b   Meyer, Gregg S ^b   Morse, Robert W ^a,b   Pearson, Clarence E ^a,b  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILITARY MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HOSPITALS, MILITARY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; ODDS RATIO; PREJUDICE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030761064     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(97)00271-4     Document Type: Article

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