Racial and ethnic variations in office-based medical care for work-related injuries and illnesses

Journal of the National Medical Association

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 498-507

  Dembe, Allard E ^a   Savageau, Judith A ^a   Amick III, Benjamin C ^b   Banks, Steven M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambulatory care; Ethnicity; Occupational medicine; Race; Workers' compensation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; MENTAL HEALTH; NURSE; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; REVIEW; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION; X RAY;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT CARE; PROBABILITY; REGISTRIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; WORKPLACE;

EID: 16244419016     PISSN: 00279684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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