Race and gender disparities in rates of cardiac revascularization do they reflect appropriate use of procedures or problems in quality of care?

Medical Care

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1240-1255

  Epstein, Arnold M ^a,b,f,g   Weissman, Joel S ^c,f   Schneider, Eric C ^a,b   Gatsonis, Constantine ^e   Leape, Lucian L ^b   Piana, Robert N ^d  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^g Harvard Achool of Public Health ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Access to care; Disparities in care; Gender disparities; Overuse; Quality of care; Racial disparities; Underuse

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; RANDOMIZATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ALGORITHMS; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SAMPLING STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0642342307     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.MLR.0000093423.38746.8C     Document Type: Article

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