Racial Disparities in Hospitalized Elderly Patients with Chronic Heart Failure

Journal of Transcultural Nursing

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 291-297

  Wheeler, Erlinda C ^a   Klemm, Paula ^a   Hardie, Thomas ^a   Plowfield, Lisa ^a   Birney, Margaret ^a   Polek, Carolee ^a   Lynch, Kevin G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

chronic heart failure; elderly; length of stay; race

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST OF ILLNESS; COVARIANCE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DATA ANALYSIS; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL BILLING; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICARE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; RACE DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN AMERICANS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HOSPITAL CHARGES; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDICARE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 4644255735     PISSN: 10436596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1043659604268962     Document Type: Article

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