Racial and ethnic disparities in nontraumatic dental-condition visits to emergency departments and physician offices : A study of the wisconsin medicaid program

Journal of the American Dental Association

Volumn 139, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1657-1666

  Okunseri, Christopher ^a   Pajewski, Nicholas M ^b   Brousseau, David C ^c   Tomany Korman, Sandy ^d   Snyder, Andrew ^e   Flores, Glenn ^f  

^a MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^d Signature Science LLC   (United States)

^e National Academy for State Health Policy   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dental health professional shortage area; Emergency department; Medicaid; Nontraumatic dental conditions; Racial and ethnic disparities

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149251957     PISSN: 00028177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14219/jada.archive.2008.0108     Document Type: Article

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