Methods for Using Medicare Data to Compare Procedure Rates among Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, and Whites

Health Services Research

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1303-1318

  Escarce, José J ^b   McGuire, Thomas G ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Disparities; Medicare; Race ethnicity

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; CORONARY STENT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ETHNOLOGY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICARE; MINORITY GROUP; NEGRO; PACEMAKER; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVASCULARIZATION; SAMPLE SIZE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SWAN GANZ CATHETER;

EID: 0142025572     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.00178     Document Type: Article

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