Researching Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Emergency Medicine

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1169-1175

  Richards, Christopher F ^a   Lowe, Robert A ^b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical datasets; Emergency medicine; Ethnic disparities; IOM recommendations

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE;

EID: 0242581674     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/S1069-6563(03)00485-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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