Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1184-1188

  Richardson, Lynne D ^a   Irvin, Charlene Babcock ^b   Tamayo Sarver, Joshua H ^c  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Disparities; Emergency medicine; Minorities; Racial inequality

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; ETHNOLOGY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; STEREOTYPY;

EID: 0242665668     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/S1069-6563(03)00487-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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