Integrating research on racial and ethnic disparities in health care over place and time

Medical Care

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 303-307

  Zaslavsky, Alan M ^a   Ayanian, John Z ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

AMERICAN INDIAN; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORTALITY; NEGRO; PUBLICATION; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL ASPECT; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; ETHNIC GROUPS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 17144417423     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlr.0000159975.43573.8d     Document Type: Editorial

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