Racial and ethnic disparities in the quality of asthma care

Chest

Volumn 132, Issue 5 SUPPL., 2007, Pages 810S-817S

  Cabana, Michael D ^a,d   Lara, Marielena ^b   Shannon, Jay ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Department of Ambulatory and Community Health   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asthma; Emergency department; Ethnicity; Health care; Quality of health care; Race

Indexed keywords

ASTHMA; CONFERENCE PAPER; ETHNICITY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 36248934210     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.07-1910     Document Type: Conference Paper

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