Racial disparity in clinical outcomes following primary percutaneous coronary intervention for ST elevation myocardial infarction: Influence of process of care

Journal of Interventional Cardiology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 182-187

  Jacobi, Joshua A ^b   Parikh, Shailja V ^b   McGuire, Darren K ^b   Delemos, James A ^b   Murphy, Sabina A ^c   Keeley, Ellen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; ASIAN AMERICANS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TEXAS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34249325155     PISSN: 08964327     EISSN: 15408183     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8183.2007.00263.x     Document Type: Article

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