Racial analyses of longer-stay nursing home residents with multiple sclerosis

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 159-165

  Buchanan, Robert J ^a   Martin, Raymond A ^b   Wang, Suojin ^c   Kim, MyungSuk ^c  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Minimum Data Set; Multiple sclerosis; Nursing facilities

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NURSING HOME PATIENT; RACE DIFFERENCE; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING HOME;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEMOGRAPHY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NURSING HOMES;

EID: 33744994549     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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