Racial differences in performance of invasive cardiac procedures in a Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 899-901

  Sedlis, Steven P ^a,b   Fisher, Vincent J ^a   Tice, David ^a   Esposito, Rick ^a   Madmon, Lori ^a   Steinberg, Eric H ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; Angioplasty; Heart surgery (utilization); Percutaneous transluminal corony (utilization); Procedure utilization; Race; Veterans Affairs

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEMALE; FINANCE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CENTER; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART SURGERY; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NEGRO; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART DISEASES; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 0030815107     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-4356(97)00089-9     Document Type: Article

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