Effects of socioeconomic status on access to invasive cardiac procedures and on mortality after acute myocardial infarction

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 341, Issue 18, 1999, Pages 1359-1367

  Alter, David A ^a,b   Naylor, C David ^a,b   Austin, Peter ^a   Tu, Jack V ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CANADA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS;

CANADA; CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE; ONTARIO; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; ONTARIO; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL CLASS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032717944     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199910283411806     Document Type: Article

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