Researching Disparities: Strategies for Primary Data Collection

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1161-1168

  Weinick, Robin M ^a  

^a AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disparities; Emergency medicine; Ethnicity; Race

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; ETHNOLOGY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; SOCIAL STATUS;

EID: 0242581676     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/S1069-6563(03)00484-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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