Influence of practices' ethnicity and deprivation on access to angiography: An ecological study

British Journal of General Practice

Volumn 54, Issue 503, 2004, Pages 423-428

  Jones, Melvyn ^a   Ramsay, Jean ^b   Feder, Gene ^b   Crook, Angela M ^c   Hemingway, Harry ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Westminster Primary Care Trust   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Access to health care; Coronary angiography; Epidemiology; Ethnic groups; Primary Health Care; Social class

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; ISOSORBIDE MONONITRATE; NITRATE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; ETHNOLOGY; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HIGH SCHOOL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STATUS; SOUTH ASIA; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 2942668048     PISSN: 09601643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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