Are there race/ethnicity differences in outpatient congestive heart failure management, hospital use, and mortality among an insured population?

Medical Care

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 680-689

  Lafata, Jennifer Elston ^a,b   Pladevall, Manel ^a   Divine, George ^a,b   Heinen, Melissa Ayoub ^c   Philbin, Edward F ^d  

^a Center for Health Services Research   (United States)

^b HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c LAKE ERIE COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE   (United States)

^d ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambulatory care; Congestive; Ethnic groups; Health services; Heart failure; Race

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; STANDARD; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 3142780738     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlr.0000129903.12843.fc     Document Type: Article

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