Do patient preferences contribute to racial differences in cardiovascular procedure use?

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 267-273

  Whittle, Jeff ^a,b   Conigliaro, Joseph ^a,b   Good, C B ^a,b   Joswiak, Monica ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

coronary artery bypass graft surgery; doctor patient relationship; percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty; race; survey

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DECISION MAKING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEGRO; RACE DIFFERENCE; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; DECISION MAKING; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PENNSYLVANIA; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 0030972866     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1497.1997.012005267.x     Document Type: Article

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