Quality of US outpatient care: Temporal changes and racial/ethnic disparities

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 165, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1354-1361

  Ma, Jun ^a   Stafford, Randall S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BENZODIAZEPIN 2 ONE DERIVATIVE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; THIAZIDE DIURETIC AGENT;

AMBULATORY CARE; ASTHMA; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEPRESSION; ETHNOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; OUTPATIENT; OUTPATIENT CARE; PERFORMANCE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; UNITED STATES; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; DRUG THERAPY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HISPANIC; NEGRO; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; DRUG THERAPY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 22144463212     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.165.12.1354     Document Type: Review

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