Quality of care by race and gender for congestive heart failure and pneumonia

Medical Care

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1260-1269

  Ayanian, John Z ^a,b   Weissman, Joel S ^b,c   Chasan Taber, Scott ^d   Epstein, Arnold M ^a,e  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Boston Biostatistics Inc   (United States)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Congestive heart failure; Pneumonia, Medicare; Quality of care; Race; Sex differences; Socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; RACE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; ILLINOIS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MEDICARE; NEW YORK; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PENNSYLVANIA; PNEUMONIA; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033253301     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-199912000-00009     Document Type: Article

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