Disparities in Emergency Department Health Care: Systems and Administration

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1193-1198

  O'Connor, Robert E ^a   Haley, Leon ^b  

^a CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disparities; Emergency department; Ethnicity; Race

Indexed keywords

COMPETENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0242413972     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/S1069-6563(03)00489-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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