"Keep on truckin'" or "it's got you in this little vacuum": Race-based perceptions in decision-making for total knee arthroplasty

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1069-1075

  Kroll, Tony L ^a   Richardson, Marsha ^b   Sharf, Barbara F ^c   Suarez Almazor, Maria E ^b  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Health disparity; Race; Total knee arthroplasty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GROUNDED THEORY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HISPANIC; HUMAN; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; TRUST;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DECISION MAKING; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; TEXAS;

EID: 34248638438     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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