Racial and ethnic differences in receipt and use of health information in encounters between patients and physicians

Medical Care

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 97-99

  Beach, Mary Catherine ^a,b,c,d   Hill Briggs, Felicia ^a,b   Cooper, Lisa A ^a,b,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NOTE;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 33644863317     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlr.0000202212.04835.8c     Document Type: Editorial

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