Racial variation in the use of coronary-revascularization procedures: Are the differences real? Do they matter?

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 336, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 480-486

  Peterson, Eric D ^a,b   Shaw, Linda K ^a   Delong, Elizabeth R ^a   Pryor, David B ^a   Califf, Robert M ^a   Mark, Daniel B ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; SELECTION FOR TREATMENT; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; NORTH CAROLINA; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0031019923     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199702133360706     Document Type: Article

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