Racial differences in the use of cardiac catheterization after acute myocardial infarction

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 344, Issue 19, 2001, Pages 1443-1449

  Chen, Jersey ^a   Rathore, Saif S ^a   Radford, Martha J ^a,b,c   Wang, Yun ^b,c   Krumholz, Harlan M ^a,b,c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c QUALIDIGM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HOSPITAL BILLING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; NEGRO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIANS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035837579     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM200105103441906     Document Type: Article

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