Symptom expression in coronary heart disease and revascularization recommendations for black and white patients

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 97, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1701-1708

  Hravnak, Marilyn ^a   Whittle, Jeff ^b   Kelley, Mary E ^c   Sereika, Susan ^a   Good, Chester B ^a   Ibrahim, Said A ^a   Conigliaro, Joseph ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETERIZATION; DYSPNEA; ETHNICITY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PHYSICIAN; THORAX PAIN; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANGINA PECTORIS; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DECISION MAKING; ETHNOLOGY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; INTERVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT REFERRAL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; CHEST PAIN; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY STENOSIS; DECISION MAKING; DYSPNEA; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; PENNSYLVANIA; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION;

EID: 34548480706     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.084103     Document Type: Article

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