Racial variation in quality of care among medicare+choice enrollees

Health Affairs

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 224-230

  Virnig, Beth A ^a   Lurie, Nicole ^b   Huang, Zhen ^a   Musgrave, Dorothea ^c   Marshall McBean, A ^a   Dowd, Bryan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^c US Public Health Service   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICARE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ASIAN AMERICANS; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MALE; MEDICARE PART C; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036832063     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.21.6.224     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. M.E. Gornick et al., "Thirty Years of Medicare: Impact on the Covered Population," Health Care Financing Review 18, no. 2 (1996): 179-237.
2. E.C. Schneider et al., "Racial Disparity in Influenza Vaccination: Does Managed Care Narrow the Gap between African Americans and Whites?" Journal of the American Medical Association 286, no. 12 (2001): 1455-1460.
3. E.C. Schneider, A.M. Zaslavsky, and A.M. Epstein, "Racial Disparities in Quality of Care for Enrollees in Medicare Managed Care," Journal of the American Medical Association 287, no. 10 (2002): 1288-1294.
4. Ibid.
5. S. Selvin, Statistical Analysis of Epidemiologic Data (New York Oxford University Press, 1991), 29-30.
6. Schneider et al., "Racial Disparities in Quality of Care."
7. S.L. Arday et al., "HCFA's Racial and Ethnic Data: Current Accuracy and Recent Improvements," Health Care Financing Review 21, no. 4 (2000): 107-116.