Racial variation in end-of-life intensive care use: A race or hospital effect?

Health Services Research

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2219-2237

  Barnato, Amber E ^a,b   Berhane, Zekarias ^c   Weissfeld, Lisa A ^b   Chang, Chung Chou H ^a,b   Linde Zwirble, Walter T ^d   Angus, Derek C ^a,b  

^a School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ZD Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnic groups; Hospitals; Intensive care units; Life support care; Terminal care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HISPANIC; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEGRO; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33751077493     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2006.00598.x     Document Type: Article

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