Racial/Ethnic in Physician Recommendations for Cardiac Revascularization

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 93, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1689-1693

  Ibrahim, Said A ^a,c   Whittle, Jeff ^b   Bean Mayberry, Bevanne ^a   Kelley, Mary E ^a   Good, Chester ^a   Conigliaro, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; RACE DIFFERENCE; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY CARE UNIT; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HEART CATHETERIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; PRIVATE HOSPITAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CARDIOLOGY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY STENOSIS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HOSPITALS, PRIVATE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0344150964     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.93.10.1689     Document Type: Article

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