Does Medicare Managed Care Provide Equal Treatment for Mental Illness Across Races?

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 201-205

  Virnig, Beth ^a,d   Huang, Zhen ^a   Lurie, Nicole ^b   Musgrave, Dorothea ^c   Marshall McBean, A ^a   Dowd, Bryan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HISPANIC; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANAGED CARE; MEDICARE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEGRO; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGED; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MANAGED CARE PROGRAMS; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICARE PART C; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MINORITY GROUPS;

EID: 0742320304     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.61.2.201     Document Type: Article

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