Racial and socioeconomic disparities in bone density testing before and after hip fracture

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1239-1245

  Neuner, Joan M ^a   Zhang, Xu ^b   Sparapani, Rodney ^a   Laud, Purushottam W ^a   Nattinger, Ann B ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disparities; Hip fracture; Osteoporosis screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; COMORBIDITY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIP FRACTURE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INCOME; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEDICARE; OSTEOPOROSIS; RACE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE DENSITY; COHORT STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HIP FRACTURES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; ILLINOIS; NEW YORK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 34547850471     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-007-0217-1     Document Type: Article

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