Racial disparities in asthma-related health outcomes in severe or difficult-to-treat asthma

Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 256-263

  Haselkorn, Tmirah ^a   Lee, June H ^a   Mink, David R ^b   Weiss, Scott T ^c  

^a GENENTECH INC   (United States)

^b ICON CLINICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c LABORATORY FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; URBAN AREA;

EID: 51649094834     PISSN: 10811206     EISSN: 15344436     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1081-1206(10)60490-5     Document Type: Article

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