Does the market value racial and ethnic concordance in physician-patient relationships?

Health Services Research

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 706-726

  Brown, Timothy T ^a   Scheffler, Richard M ^a   Tom, Sarah E ^b   Schulman, Kevin A ^c,d  

^a School of Public Health   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Center for Clinical and Genetic Economics   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Physician earnings; Racial concordance; Racial disparities

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LABOR MANAGEMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN INCOME; POPULATION RESEARCH; RACE DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ASIAN AMERICANS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; SALARIES AND FRINGE BENEFITS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33947132745     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2006.00634.x     Document Type: Article

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