Disparities by insurance status in quality of care for elderly patients with unstable angina

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 799-807

  Pamboukian, Salpy V ^a   Funkhouser, Ellen ^a   Child, Ian G ^a   Allison, Jeroan J ^a   Weissman, Norman W ^a   Kiefe, Catarina I ^a,b  

^a BIRMINGHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Angina; Elderly; Health insurance; Medicare

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; HEPARIN;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOLOGY; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL TRIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; ELDERLY CARE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INSURANCE; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICAL FEE; MEDICARE; MULTICENTER STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALABAMA; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; CARDIOLOGY; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEE-FOR-SERVICE PLANS; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEPARIN; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INSURANCE COVERAGE; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; ODDS RATIO; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 36048958606     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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