Patient-physician racial concordance and the perceived quality and use of health care

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 159, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 997-1004

  Saha, Somnath ^a   Komaromy, Miriam ^b   Koepsell, Thomas D ^c   Bindman, Andrew B ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RATING SCALE; UNITED STATES;

CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; CULTURAL PLURALISM; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; SURVEY; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH RESOURCES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENTS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 0033542046     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.159.9.997     Document Type: Article

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