Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Pediatric Appendicitis Rupture Rate

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1218-1227

  Guagliardo, Mark F ^a,b   Teach, Stephen J ^a   Huang, Zhihuan J ^a   Chamberlain, James M ^a   Joseph, Jill G ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Appendicitis; Children; Disparity; Emergencies; Race

Indexed keywords

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APPENDIX PERFORATION; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS SECTIONAL ANALYSIS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0242581664     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/S1069-6563(03)00492-5     Document Type: Article

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