Patient ethnicity and the identification of anxiety in elderly primary care patients

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1626-1630

  Kim, Yeowon A ^a   Morales, Knashawn H ^a   Bogner, Hillary R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aged; Anxiety; Diagnosis; Ethnicity; Primary care

Indexed keywords

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DRUG USE; EDUCATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DRUG UTILIZATION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS;

EID: 51249091201     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2008.01859.x     Document Type: Article

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