Race and Gender Differences in Pediatricians' Annual Incomes

Ambulatory Pediatrics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 196-200

  Weeks, William B ^a,b,c   Wallace, Amy E ^a,c  

^a VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Dartmouth's Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences   (United States)

^c DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

gender; physician incomes; race

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CAUCASIAN; CERTIFICATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER BIAS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; JOB PERFORMANCE; LICENSING; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MEDICAID; PHYSICIAN INCOME; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; WORK SCHEDULE;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DATA COLLECTION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; PEDIATRICS; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33947147737     PISSN: 15301567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ambp.2006.12.004     Document Type: Article

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