Racial differences in the diagnosis of dementia and in its effects on the use and costs of health care services

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 92-96

  Husaini, Baqar A ^a   Sherkat, Darren E ^b   Moonis, Majaz ^d   Levine, Robert ^e   Holzer, Charles ^c   Cain, Van A ^a  

^a TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^d University of Massachusetts   (United States)

^e MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST CONTROL; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRY; RACE DIFFERENCE;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; DEMENTIA; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; PREVALENCE; TENNESSEE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037220407     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.54.1.92     Document Type: Article

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